The prosecution requested Tuesday, February 2 a one-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of 50,000 euros against the former Prime Minister Édouard Balladur, tried in Paris for suspicion of secret financing of his presidential campaign of 1995, part of the sprawling Karachi affair.
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Against his former Minister of Defense, François Léotard, the public prosecutor asked for two years in prison and a 100,000 euros fine, considering that he was "
much more involved
" than Balladur in the management of retrocommissions illegal in the margins of arms contracts. The two defendants were absent at the hearing.