businessman Alexandre Djouhri, the president and “macaroni with foie gras” – Libération

But who really is Alexandre Djouhri, whom the president invites this Monday afternoon, January 20, to take the stand? Black suit and black sneakers, white shirt and tie, presented for ages in the press as a sulphurous character, extremely wealthy intimate of princes and bosses, dressed in the costume of the intermediary of large international and lucrative contracts, the person concerned does not nothing to disprove the legend.

Omnipresent in the affair of the supposed Libyan financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign in 2007, he is on trial for a string of leaders, from «corruption» au «faux» and at “influence peddling” passing through the “complicity” and the “concealment of embezzlement of public funds”the “organized gang laundering of tax fraud committed by Claude Guéant” and, finally, “the criminal association”. To summarize, Djouhri is being prosecuted for having contributed to the payment of 500,000 euros to Claude Guéant, and for having played, according to the judges, an active role in the evaporation