ABIDJAN (AFP) - Former French president Jacques Chirac received three million euros ($4 million) from Ivory Coast in 2002 to finance his electoral campaign, a top aide to ousted Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo said Sunday.
Mamadou Koulibaly, a former number two in the Gbagbo government and now speaker of the National Assembly was confirming charges made by Robert Bourgi, a lawyer with a network of African contacts who advised Chirac before changing camps in 2005 to aid now President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Bourgui made the allegations in France's Journal du Dimanche newspaper.
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