World Sarkozy Lawyer Detained in Graft Probe - Sky News

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Nicolas Sarkozy's lawyer and two magistrates have been detained for questioning in one of a raft of corruption probes embroiling the former president of France.

Investigators are seeking to establish whether Sarkozy, with the help of his lawyer Thierry Herzog, attempted to pervert the course of justice in a case with the potential to land the country's former leader in jail.

They suspect Sarkozy, 59, sought to obtain inside information from one of the magistrates about the progress of another probe, and that he was tipped off that his mobile phone had been tapped by judges looking into the alleged financing of his 2007 election campaign by former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

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