Ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy taken into police custody

PARIS [FRANCE]: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday was taken into police custody over allegations that he received millions of euros in illegal election campaign funding from late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.Sarkozy, 63, who was France’s right-wing president from 2007 to 2012, was questioned by prosecutors specialising in corruption, money laundering and tax evasion at their office in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre.