article_snippet: It is all part of a wider corruption enquiry into claims that Claude Gueant's former boss, Nicolas Sarkozy, received millions from the late Libyan dictator.
article_snippet: The central allegation is that Gaddafi directly funded the 2007 election campaign which saw Sarkozy become French president, in return for Sarkozy's support.
article_snippet: Both Sarkozy and Gueant deny claims that Gueant's former boss, Nicolas Sarkozy, received millions from the late Libyan dictator, but Paris judicial sources confirmed Claude Gueantwas being interviewed about the allegations from 6.45am today'.
article_snippet: A document made public in Paris in 2012 is said to show that the pair sealed an illegal financial deal that propelled Sarkozy to power in 2007.
article_snippet: Written in Arabic and signed by Mussa Kussa, Gaddafi's intelligence chief, in 2006, it refers to an 'agreement in principle to support the campaign for the candidate for the presidential elections, Sarkozy, for a sum equivalent to Euro 50million'.
article_snippet: Claude Gueant and Sarkozy are accused of accepting cash from Colonel Gaddafi (above) to fund Claude Gueant and Nicolas Sarkozy 2007 election campaign .
article_snippet: Claude Gueant and Nicolas Sarkozy, said at the time: 'Faced with such serious allegations, backed up by documents sourced from the Libyan dictator's own entourage, Sarkozy must explain Sarkozy to the French people. '
article_snippet: Several times in recent weeks, specific information has been published by the press relating to France's relationship with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime.'
article_snippet: A governmental briefing note among papers sent to the investigative news site Mediapart points to numerous visits to Libya by Sarkozy and Sarkozy colleagues which were aimed at securing funding.
article_snippet: One, said to have taken place on October 6, 2005, led to 'campaign finance to NS' being 'all paid' - assumed to be a reference to Sarkozy.
article_snippet: At the time, Sarkozy was an ambitious interior minister who was raising money for Sarkozy presidential election campaign, even though taking cash from a notorious tyrant would have broken political financing laws.
article_snippet: Sarkozy turned on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi Colonel Muammar Gaddafi at the beginning of the Arab Spring in 2011.
article_snippet: French jets were the first to attack Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's tanks in a military campaign which ended with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi being murdered.
highlights_snippet: Allegation is Gaddafi directly funded campaign to get Sarkozy's support .
  