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SHARE Lawyers who helped release fugitive international businessman Ziad Takieddine from a Lebanese jail now plan to sue him for failure to pay their fees. It is the latest twist in years of high-profile legal troubles for Takieddine, 70, a French-Lebanese middleman wanted in France for his suspected involvement in the alleged Libyan funding of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign, an ongoing case that has rocked French politics. “It has been more than one month and we have yet to be paid,” Haitham Ezzo, one of two lawyers who plan to sue the businessman, told The Na...