Former Sarkozy Aides Arrested in French Graft Probe

The former right-hand man of French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy was arrested on Tuesday for questioning about alleged misuse of public funds when he served the conservative leader at the Interior Ministry, a judicial source said. Claude Gueant, interior minister until May last year and Sarkozy's chief of staff between 2002 and 2011, was put under preliminary investigation in June after police found evidence of cash purchases worth some 20,000 euros ($27,500) in a search of his...

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