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Speaker 1: And Vincent Mecaveny joins me now from Europe. Morning.

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Speaker 2: Vincent, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Former French president Nicholas Psychosi has been seen since to

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Speaker 1: five years in jazz. Is this the third conviction? There

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Speaker 1: were two previous ones for corruption, weren't there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. He's had a pretty checkered pass since

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Speaker 2: he left office. He was, of course a president of

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Speaker 2: France prior to the Francis Holans and he was sentenced

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Speaker 2: now to five years in jail. So he's going from

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Speaker 2: the Elise Palace to jail. And this is in a

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Speaker 2: case relating to millions of euros of illicit funds from

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Speaker 2: the late Libyan leader, Colonel Wuanmerga Daffy. Now there wasn't

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Speaker 2: a charge, there wasn't a successful conviction of sort of

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Speaker 2: having the campaign finances themselves. This is all about a

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Speaker 2: conspiracy to get money out of Libya for his election campaigning.

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Speaker 2: He was president two thousand and seven to twelve, so

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Speaker 2: quite a while ago now, But this case has worked

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Speaker 2: its way through the French justice system and in exchange,

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Speaker 2: he was reportedly going to help sort of wash Gadaffi's

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Speaker 2: international reputation. He was a pariah at this point. And

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Speaker 2: he reacted pretty strongly in court, taking down the justice

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Speaker 2: system and being very affronted and quite shocked, it seemed,

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Speaker 2: at the fact that he is actually going to have

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Speaker 2: to spend time in prison. His wife, the supermodel Carla Brunei,

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Speaker 2: was standing next to him, also looking fairly shell shocked

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Speaker 2: by it.

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Speaker 1: Do you think he will have to spend five years

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Speaker 1: in prison?

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he will spell in the full

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Speaker 2: five years, but I think it's very likely he is

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Speaker 2: going to appeal against this, but he is going to

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Speaker 2: have to spend a couple of years, it seems, in

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Speaker 2: prison until potentially the result of that appeal.

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Speaker 1: Then's it, Maca. Then, thank you so much for the update.

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