France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy has denied receiving “a penny” in campaign funds from France’s richest woman Liliane Bettencourt, Reuters reported, citing excerpts from his testimony.Sarkozy, who lost power in May, was questioned for 12 hours on Thursday by a judge who is trying to establish whether his election win in 2007 was aided by illegal funding by the L’Oreal heiress.He has denied any wrongdoing and his spokeswoman was not immediately available to comment on Saturday about the report.”I have known the Bettencourts since I was 28-years-old. I am now 57,” Sarkozy told judges, according to excerpts of his testimony published by Sud-Ouest.”I have conducted five municipal campaigns,” Sarkozy said about the Paris suburb Neuilly of which he was mayor and where Bettencourt and her daughter still live.”They never gave me a penny, I never gave them one and I never asked them for anything. I was not going to st art at 52 as France’s president.”
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