A high-ranking intelligence adviser to the late Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, Abdullah al-Senussi, allegedly told French investigators that the Libyan government "donated" to the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy 8 million dollars for the 2007 election campaign. An accusation hardly disproved by Sarkozy himself: ”During a 20-minute television interview, Sarkozy described the investigation into the Libyan agent's allegations as“ a waste of time ”, claiming that it was a donation of less than 45 dollars,“ really minimal… ”.
But according to the French investigative news site Mediapart a team of French judges received the indiscretion, of the huge sum of money paid for Sarkozy's election campaign, directly from Gaddafi's former intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi.
Al Senussi claims to have coordinated the Libyan intelligence agencies under Gaddafi and in this regard told the French investigators that the funding was part of a secret agreement between the two parties.
In the 1979, Senussi married the sister of Gaddafi's wife. Given the kinship and common interests remained the closest and trusted man of the Libyan leader until he was dismissed and killed 2011.
According to Mediapart, Senussi reported to French judges that he personally oversaw the transfer of funds for Sarkozy's election campaign. These payments entered the coffers dedicated to the electoral campaign through a French government minister who would receive money from Libyan agents in two separate installments in the 2006.
In return, Sarkozy promised to help restore Gaddafi's international image and prevent attempts by Western countries to arrest Gaddafi and some of his most trusted leaders, including Senussi, for terrorist crimes.. Also according to what al Senussi said, Sarkozy himself promised Gaddafi that international arrest warrants would be suppressed with the help of the French president's personal lawyers. Later Sarkozy also hosted Gaddafi in Paris in a sumptuous meeting in 2007. Mediapart said he had access to Senussi's testimony before the French courts after obtaining extracts from his official statements during his interviews. He added that the information provided by Senussi seems to confirm similar statements made by other witnesses in investigations into the alleged illegal financing of the Sarkozy campaign.
Probably at the base of the attack on Libya, strenuously wanted by Sarkozy in March 2011, there is this "uncomfortable" secret. Apparently he pulled out several times by Gaddafi when he wanted to replace the French CFA currency in Africa with the Iraqi dinar which, according to the ambitious plans of Gaddafi, who at the time was president of the African League, should have become the "African dinar". A currency under the "single" control of African countries, including those that had been former French colonies.