France's Sarkozy says no Libyan money went into winning 2007 campaign

France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday told an appeal trial there was "not a single cent of Libyan money" in the campaign that saw him elected in 2007.The 71-year-old, who has always denied any wrongdoing, last year became modern France's first former president to have gone to jail over the case."The truth is that there wasn't a single cent of Libyan money in my campaign," Sarkozy said.

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