Sarkozy denies Gaddafi 'funded' 2007 campaign
The government of the late Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi agreed to fund French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign with an estimated $66m, a French news website has reported.
The Paris-based investigative website Mediapart on Saturday published what it said was documentary evidence of the illegal campaign funding.
Sarkozy strongly denied the allegations when first questioned by French journalists in March. Sarkozy's campaign spokesperson Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet dismissed the latest report as "ridiculous" and a "clumsy diversion" orchestrated by supporters of Francois Hollande, his Socialist opponent in the upcoming presidential election.
France has strict campaign financing laws, banning politicians from taking funding from foreign states.
The 2006 document, written in Arabic, was signed by Gaddafi's intelligence chief Moussa Koussa, who reportedly now lives in Doha, Qatar.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/04/201242814462322719.html