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The French are torn between revulsion and disbelief over claims that ex-President Jacques Chirac and his ally Dominique de Villepin received tens of millions of dollars in bundles of banknotes from several African leaders.

The allegations are made in an extraordinary newspaper interview with the man who, for many years, acted as an unofficial intermediary between the Elysee palace and African governments.

Robert Bourgi, a 66-year-old lawyer, claims in Le Journal du Dimanche that in Mr Chirac's 2002 re-election campaign he personally passed on cash contributions worth millions of dollars.

The money allegedly came from the leaders of five African countries, all former French colonies: Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Congo-Brazzaville and Gabon. Later, the president of the former Spanish colony of Equitorial Guinea also allegedly made payments.

Mr Bourgi claims that Mr de Villepin - who was Mr Chirac's cabinet secretary, then foreign minister, interior minister and prime minister - personally handled most of the cash deliveries, which, he says, lasted from 1997 till 2005.

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