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Slideshow Sponsored Links Sarkozy judge mistook hostage for billionaire backer: lawyer Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Sarkozy dodges official inquiry in election funding scandal Thu, Nov 22 2012 Sarkozy quizzed by magistrates over election funds Thu, Nov 22 2012 French right debacle opens window for Sarkozy Tue, Nov 20 2012 French magistrates to question Sarkozy on 2007 campaign funding Tue, Nov 20 2012 Sarkozy ally wins French right leadership battle Mon, Nov 19 2012 Related Topics World » France » Gaza conflict Images from inside both the Gaza Strip and Israel. Slideshow Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy jogs in Paris, November 23, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Benoit Tessier PARIS | Fri Nov 23, 2012 10:19am EST PARIS (Reuters) - A judge investigating Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign funding mistook a Colombian hostage for a billionaire backer of France's right-wing party when he queried a meeting in the ex-president's diary, a lawyer for Sarkozy said. 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 from France's richest woman, 90-year-old Liliane Bettencourt. Rather than Bettencourt, daughter of the founder of the L'Oreal cosmetics empire, the diary entry referred to Franco-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt, who was held hostage in Colombia for six years and freed in 2007. "In the diary box, believe it or not, it's indicated that Nicolas Sarkozy received the Betancourt family," lawyer Thierry Herzog told French radio. Judge Jean-Michel Gentil decided after the questioning not to open a full-blown inquiry into Sarkozy, who has bowed out of politics but is considered a possible candidate for the conservative camp in the next presidential contest in 2017. Herzog said that Sarkozy, who categorically denies any wrongdoing, was relieved. Gentil and two other judges who questioned Sarkozy classified him as a witness, a status in French judicial procedure that signals he is not liable to face trial. Initial suspicions were fuelled three years ago when a woman who worked as an accountant for the mentally frail Bettencourt, now aged 90, alleged that a large cash withdrawal was earmarked for Sarkozy's campaign. Liliane Bettencourt's family has long had close connections with the UMP party of Sarkozy, who lost presidential immunity when he left office. "For him and for me, this affair is an affair that no longer exists," said Herzog. (Reporting By Brian Love; Editing by Myra MacDonald) World France Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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