PARIS - Nicolas Sarkozy's corruption trial is scheduled to begin on Monday in Paris over allegations he promised to help an official land a prestigious Monaco court job in exchange for covert aid in a legal fight to stop investigators using the former French president's diaries.
When Sarkozy's lawyer told him - in a tapped call - in 2014 that the official was hoping for a good word to get an appointment at Monaco's top administrative court, the ex-president replied:"I'll help him." He received a suspended jail sentence after being found guilty of misusing city funds to benefit his supporters and political party.
Just weeks after his presidential immunity ended, his private home and his Paris office were raided by police in a probe into claims that he received illegal campaign cash from L'Oreal SA heiress Liliane Bettencourt ahead of his 2007 election. It was the outcome of that second lawsuit that he was allegedly trying to illegally monitor and influence with the help of Azibert.
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