Former Prime Minister Édouard Balladur was released Thursday by the Court of Justice of the Republic, which tried him for suspicion of hidden financing of his unfortunate presidential campaign of 1995, one of the aspects of the Karachi affair.
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Its former Minister of Defense François Léotard was sentenced to two years' suspended imprisonment and a 100,000 euros fine for "
complicity
" in the abuse of corporate assets. Both were absent from the deliberations.