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legalcrime1 year ago

"Paris Court Reduces Ex-French President Sarkozy's 2012 Campaign Financing Sentence by Half"

A Paris court has reduced former French president Nicolas Sarkozy's one-year prison sentence for illegal campaign financing to six months, with the other half suspended. Sarkozy, who has faced a series of legal issues, was found guilty of hiding illegal overspending in his 2012 re-election campaign. Despite his legal woes, he remains influential in French politics and has a trial scheduled for 2025 over allegations of taking money from late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his 2007 presidential bid.

via FRANCE 24 English|
#campaign-financing#france#legal-troubles
legal2 years ago

Malaysia emerges victorious in $15 billion dispute with Sulu heirs.

Malaysia has won an appeal against enforcing a partial award to the heirs of a former sultan who won $15 billion in an arbitration over a colonial-era land deal. The Paris Court of Appeal found the case arbitrator had wrongly upheld his jurisdiction. The win for Malaysia implies the final award will be annulled and the descendants' efforts to seize Malaysian assets will end. The dispute stems from an 1878 deal signed between European colonists and the Sultan of Sulu for use of his territory, which spanned islands in the southern Philippines and parts of present-day Malaysia on Borneo island.

via Reuters|
#arbitration#colonial-era-land-deal#legal
legal2 years ago

Airbus and Air France cleared of liability in 2009 Rio-Paris crash.

Airbus and Air France have been cleared of involuntary manslaughter charges related to the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447 from Rio to Paris. The Paris court ruled that no certain causal link between errors committed and the accident could be proven. The case was brought by the families of the victims in a legal battle lasting years. The two companies only risked a comparatively small fine of €225,000 if convicted, but the reputational symbolism of avoiding the ruling was deemed valuable.

via DW (English)|
#air-france#air-france-flight-447#airbus