Last month, Sarkozy was placed under formal investigation for “active corruption” in a case linked indirectly to the Tapie Affair.

Sarkozy can be held 24 hours, renewable once for a second 24-hour stretch.

How Sarkozy could have learned investigators tapped his primary phone is also a topic for questions Tuesday.

Two years on, Sarkozy and/or his close associates are still bogged down by at least six unresolved scandals.