{"id":28849,"date":"2014-07-01T07:06:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T07:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=28849"},"modified":"2014-07-01T07:06:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T07:06:14","slug":"sarkozy-held-over-influence-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=28849","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy &#8216;held&#8217; over influence claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been detained for questioning over alleged influence peddling.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to detain him at Nanterre, near Paris, is an unprecedented step against a former president.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sarkozy&#8217;s lawyer was questioned on Monday on suspicion of seeking inside information about a case against the former leader.<\/p>\n<p>The latest developments are seen as a blow to Mr Sarkozy&#8217;s attempts to challenge for the presidency in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are trying to find out whether Mr Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, had promised a prestigious role in Monaco to a high-ranking judge in exchange for information.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert Azibert, one of the most senior judges at the court of appeal, was also called in for questioning on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been detained for questioning over alleged influence peddling. The decision to detain him at Nanterre, near Paris, is an unprecedented step against a former president. Mr Sarkozy&#8217;s lawyer was questioned on Monday on suspicion of seeking inside information about a case against the former leader. The latest developments are seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-28849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}