French police search Nicolas Sarkozy home and office
Found on BBC News on Tuesday, 03 July 2012
The investigation is related to allegations that Mr Sarkozy's 2007 presidential election campaign received illegal donations from France's richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt.
An investigating magistrate is looking into claims that staff acting for the L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, gave 150,000 euros in cash to Mr Sarkozy's aides during his 2007 bid to become president.
In addition, there are other witnesses who allege that during the 2007 campaign, Mr Sarkozy made several private visits to Ms Bettencourt's home.
Nice to see that a former president, who fought so hard to stop people from downloading a few songs and to get them cut off from the Internet as a result, seems to have no problem to accept illegal donations for his own benefit.