Nicolas Sarkozy, former French President has been taken into police custody for questioning over allegations that he received campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. Possible charges in this case would be influence peddling, fraud, handling of stolen goods and money laundering though it has not yet reached the stage where charges may or may not be laid. He was detained in 2014 in a separate investigation into alleged campaign funding abuses – the first time ever for a French ex-president; and has been ordered to stand trial in a separate case of alleged illicit campaign financing. He was previously cleared over claims that he had used secret funding from L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt and that he had tried to influence investigating magistrates. He denies everything.
Born 28 January 1955 10pm Paris, he’s not as his most equable with tr Saturn just over the square to his Moon and squaring his Mars for a setback in April, and again later in the year. His Solar Arc Saturn is also opposing his ‘lucky’ Jupiter Uranus conjunction now until late 2019, so he’ll be less exuberant than usual. Tr Uranus also makes a catastrophic square to his Mars/Saturn midpoint from mid May, on and off through into 2019. He’ll revive by 2020 but he’ll have a few mountains to climb before then.