Paris — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to learn Monday when and where he will serve time in prison for criminal conspiracy for a scheme to use funds from Libya to finance his winning 2007 campaign.

The first ex-president in modern French history to be imprisoned, Sarkozy maintains his innocence and has protested the decision to put him behind bars pending his appeal.

The National Financial Prosecutor's office, or PNF, will instruct the 70-year-old Sarkozy which prison to report to and when, in what is expected to be a relatively short and formal meeting on Monday afternoon.

“We will tell him the date, the place and the hour he has to be there,” said Bérénice Dinh, the PNF's general secretary and spokesperson.

But the PNF doesn't intend to make that information public

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