A photo of a computer screen taken on April 29, 2012 in Paris, shows a page of the Interpol's website featuring Bashir Al Shrkawi also known as Bashir Saleh, Kadhafi's former chief of staff and head of Libya's 40 billion dollar sovereign wealth fund. French investigative news website Mediapart published what it said was a copy of an internal Libyan regime document recording an alleged 2006 illegal funding deal between Tripoli and Sarkozy's 2007 campaign. According to the note, which Mediapart claims to have obtained from former regime figures ousted last year in the revolt against Kadhafi's rule, Tripoli agreed to pay Sarkozy's 2007 campaign 50 million euros ($66 million). "It's despicable. It's a forgery. Mediapart is well used to dishonesty. It's an agency in the service of the left," Sarkozy declared in an interview with French Canal+ television, angrily dismissing the claim. And Bashir Al Shrakawi, the man to whom the memo was supposedly addressed, denied ever receiving such a communication. Al Shrkawi's lawyer Pierre Haik sent AFP a statement expressing "grave reservations" over the authenticity of the note. AFP PHOTO / THOMAS SAMSON / AFP PHOTO / THOMAS SAMSON (Photo credit should read THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images)
