A French appeal court on Tuesday threw out a bid by former President Nicolas Sarkozy to have corruption charges linked to his 2007 election campaign dropped.
Sarkozy’s lawyers and various people who have been charged in connection with the party funding scandal had asked the court to rule inadmissible medical evidence relating to the health of France’s richest woman, liliane Bettencourt.
Sarkozy was charged in March with accepting envelopes stuffed with cash from the l’Oreal heiress when she was too frail to understand what she was doing, to fund his successful 2007 campaign.