Since June 2017, Marine Le Pen has also been prosecuted in an investigation conducted in Paris on suspicion of bogus jobs in the European Parliament of party assistants.
by AFP
MThe European Anti-Fraud Office accused Erin Le Pen (RN) and her relatives for embezzling nearly 600,000 euros of European public money during her mandate as MEPs, according to a new report surfaced by Mediapart on Saturday and submitted to French justice. accused of. ,
Asked by AFP, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed it had received the report on March 11, which is currently being analysed. “I am always surprised by the strong timing of the revelation” and its “instrumentalisation” reacted AFP Me Rodolph Bosselut, lawyer for Marine Le Pen, who is campaigning for the second round of the presidential election.
Me Bosselut also states that he is “disappointed with the way Olaf (the European Anti-Fraud Office) works, without contradictory character” and for some “facts more than ten years old”. Marine Le Pen “has not been summoned by any French judicial authority”, adding that neither he nor his client were the recipients of the final report.
According to her, Olaf’s investigation has been open since 2016 and Ms Le Pen was questioned by mail in March 2021.
Olaf’s new report, of which Mediapart publishes extracts, deals with charges that political groups can use in the context of their mandates as MEPs and how Marine Le Pen and those close to him have used personal expenses, for national political purposes. to be used for or for the Services. For the benefit of commercial companies close to the national rally and the far-right parliamentary group Europe des Nations et des Libertes (ENL).
Olaf implicated Marine Le Pen, three other former MEPs – his father Jean-Marie Le Pen, his former partners Louis Eliot and Bruno Gollnish, members of the National Office of RN and ENL.
The office accuses him of embezzlement of about 600,000 euros, of which it recommends reimbursement. According to the report, the National Rally candidate may have personally embezzled about 137,000 euros of public money from Strasbourg’s parliament when she was MEP between 2004 and 2017.
Since June 2017, Marine Le Pen has also been prosecuted in an investigation conducted in Paris on suspicion of bogus jobs in the European Parliament of party assistants. He has been charged with “embezzlement of public money” and “participation” in the crime as part of this judicial investigation.
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