Moammar Gadhafi

Nicolas Sarkozy, who served as president from 2008 to 2012, has been under a wide-ranging corruption investigation for years. Earlier this week he was taken into custody for questioning.

French officials have been investigating claims that former President Nicolas Sarkozy took 50 million euros from the Libyan regime to fund his successful 2007 presidential bid.

The sentence was handed down in connection to killings during the 2011 uprising that overthrew his father, Moammar Gadhafi. Saif Al-Islam, however, is being held by a militia in the west.