Former collaborator of Nicolas Sarkozy, Thierry Gaubert, also convicted in the case in Karachi, was sentenced Wednesday, June 24, to three years in prison and a fine of 600,000 euros for tax evasion and laundering of tax fraud. His ex-wife, Helene of Yugoslavia, was sentenced to eighteen months ' suspended sentence and a 50,000 euro fine. The justice of their criticism that has concealed 8.9 million euros on various accounts in tax havens between 1996 and 2016.

facts "of a severity degree"

At the hearing, the parquet national financier (PNF) had demanded two years of prison, including a farm, and a 600,000 euros fine against Thierry Gaubert, and eight-month prison sentence and € 200 000 fine against Hélène of Yugoslavia. In December, the prosecutor of the PNF has been virulent in respect of Thierry Gaubert, a former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy for mayor of Neuilly in 1983 and then to the ministry of the Budget (1993-1995), considering that he was "the brain of the fixtures in question" and that the complexity of these " attest(ait) of the fraudulent intent ".

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The tribunal has not been more clement, holding that "the facts were of a severity certain" and that they were repeated then that Thierry Gaubert had already been convicted in 2012 in Nanterre to a ten-month suspended prison sentence for abuse of trust and of social goods in a case of embezzlement from the 1 % housing. The revocation of the sentence of ten months ' suspended sentence was also pronounced on Wednesday, as a prohibition to manage a business for ten years, the seizure of watches of collection and assets on a bank account.

Sentencing in the case of Karachi

in Mid-June, alongside five other defendants, Thierry Gaubert, 69 years old, had been sentenced in the financial aspect of the case Karachi for their role in a system of hidden commissions on contracts arming with saudi Arabia and Pakistan. He was then sentenced to four years in prison, including two closes, and 120 000 euros of penalty for concealment of abuse of social goods, because the justice considered that it had " allowed in all knowledge of cause return to France, in the form of rétrocommissions, of funds from the disputed commission, to the account of the campaign of Edouard Balladur in 1995.

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earlier this year, in early February, he was also indicted for " criminal association ", in the investigation on suspicion of funding a libyan for the 2007 campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy. It is particularly suspected of having received funds from the libyan regime of Gaddafi who would have been able to contribute to the budget of this campaign.