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François Gueant in March 2008 Britain. – FRED TANNEAU / AFP

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The son of Claude Gueant is in custody since Monday morning in case on charges of illegal financing of the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy by the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in 2007, will on Tuesday judicial source, confirming a report of iTV.

François Gueant, the son of the former right hand of Nicolas Sarkozy is particularly asked about “financial flows,” said another source close to the investigation. Several Libyan officials brought these financing charges by Libya’s victorious presidential campaign of 2007. Claude Gueant was indicted in early March in the Libyan financing deal for suspicion of “false”, “bleach tax evasion “and” tax evasion “. The judges are interested indeed to the sale of a painting of a Flemish painter for 500,000 euros, an amount they consider largely overestimated.

Custody of Francis Gueant relates to separate facts from the sale of Flemish paintings, said one of the sources close to the investigation.

The Malian former president also heard

Obviously, this case is moving forward since the former Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure, known as ATT, was heard in Dakar on Tuesday as a “witness” in the French investigation of an alleged Libyan funding for former French head of state Nicolas Sarkozy , is it learned Tuesday with his entourage.

Amadou Toumani Touré, exiled Dakar since April 2012, shortly after the overthrow of his power, “was summoned as a witness by the CID (Criminal Investigation Department, Senegalese police) as part of a French commission,” said the source close who requested anonymity, without specifying the date of the hearing.

Alexandre Djouhri searched

She said the DIC “asked him what he knows of the Libyan funding” which would have benefited Nicolas Sarkozy folder is quoted Sheikh Amadou “Bani Kante, one of his advisers who ran a Libyan investment fund”. It excluded any other hearing Amadou Toumani Touré in this case.

In addition, the Swiss newspaper Time found that the Swiss home of businessman Alexandre Djouhri who gravitated especially in the field of arms sales, was raided. This businessman describes himself as a “facilitator” big contracts is close to Claude Gueant.