<p>Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of criminal conspiracy.</p><p>He was however found <span style="background-color: initial;">not guilty </span>of receiving illegal campaign financing from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi for his successful 2007 presidential bid.<span></span></p><p><span></span>Sarkozy was acquitted <span style="background-color: initial;">by a Paris court </span>of all charges except criminal conspiracy.</p><p>The former president, who has always denied the charges, was accused of making a deal with Gaddafi in 2005, when he was France's interior minister, to obtain campaign financing in exchange for supporting the then-isolated Libyan government on the international stage.</p><p>The 70-year-old has been on trial since January.</p><p><em><br></em></p>

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Nicolas Sarkozy has been on trial since January{ai:summary}<p>Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy. </p><p>He was acquitted of taking illegal Libyan campaign funds from Muammar Gaddafi for the 2007 bid; the trial began in January. #politics</p>

France's ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy faces seven years in prison as he's found guilty of criminal conspiracy

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