French police questioned President Sarkozy’s longtime friend and adviser Brice Hortefeux on Friday, in connection with the so-called Karachi affair, in which two of Sarkozy’s closest allies are already implicated.

He was interviewed over a phone call he made to a suspect in the Karachi affair, to warn him that his estranged wife had been talking to investigators.

The call to Thierry Gaubert, who was also a close aide to Sarkozy before he became president, was intercepted by investigators and leaked to the media. 

Gaubert’s wife had told police that her husband made trips to Switzerland in the 1990s to collect suitcases full of cash to finance Edouard Balladur’s unsuccessful presidential campaign.

Nicolas Sarkozy was campaign spokesman for Balladur at the time, and also budget minister.

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