Inquiry launched into L’Oreal/Sarkozy donations scandal

Latest update : 2010-07-08
An investigation into allegations that L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt and her late husband Andre illegally funded Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign has been ordered by a Paris prosecutor, whose links to Sarkozy are now in the spotlight.
A Paris prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into an alleged illegal cash donation to President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign.

How French politicians and parties are funded

Date created : 2010-07-07