On Friday, the French Public Prosecutor's Office charged former President Nicolas Sarkozy with "forming a gang" in a case related to the Libyan funding for his election campaign.
The National Finance Prosecutor told AFP that Sarkozy's accusation of forming a criminal gang came within the framework of the investigation into the possibility that he obtained Libyan funding for his 2007 election campaign.
The charge got pressed after four days of interrogation sessions.
This new charge is the fourth to three other charges brought against the former President in the same file in March 2018.
Investigators had previously used wiretapping devices to examine different allegations that the late Libyan leader Muammar Al-Gaddafi had financed Sarkozy's campaign.
Sarkozy held the presidency of France from 2007 to 2012 but lost the election to François Hollande when he sought re-election.
Since then, he has faced a series of investigations related to alleged crimes of corruption, fraud, favouritism and oddities in financing his election campaign.
His lawyers previously said that the judges investigating the alleged Libyan funding just exceeded their authority, since they overheard his conversations between September 2013 and March 2014, which violated the confidentiality of the lawyer-client communication.
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