Vertaling van "brilliant career helmut kohl now finds himself " (Engels → Frans) :

Despite his brilliant career, Helmut Kohl now finds himself caught up in a political and financial scandal which is destroying his reputation in a way that no one would have wished on him or themselves, for that matter.
Or, Helmut Kohl est pris dans un scandale politico-financier qui est en train de mettre un terme à sa brillante carrière d'une façon que personne n'aurait souhaité pour lui ni, à plus forte raison, pour soi-même.