During his tenure in the European Parliament, Le Pen allegedly embezzled ,000 600,000.

During his tenure in the European Parliament
Le Pen is said to have embezzled 600,000 euros

04/16/2022, 11:37 p.m.

According to a media report, the European Parliament has accused several members of the right-wing Nationalist Party of maintaining bogus employment ties. The allegations against party leader Le Pen are weighty: he is said to have invested in companies for political purposes.

According to a media report, the EU anti-fraud agency has accused Olaf of embezzling about € 600,000 during his tenure as MEP, along with French right-wing populist Marine Le Pen and several of his confidants. The French news website “Mediapart” released some excerpts from a new Olaf report on Saturday. Le Pen faces incumbent Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential election next Sunday.

Le Pen’s attorney denied the allegations. This is a “tooling”, so just before the run-off election, said Rodolphe Bosselut of the AFP news agency. Some parts of the report are “facts for more than ten years”. Marine Le Pen “was not called by any French judicial officer,” he added. Neither he nor his client received the final report of the investigation, which began in 2016. In March 2021 Marine Le Pen was interrogated in writing.

“Mediapart” spent parts of the new Olaf report on political committees in the European Parliament within the framework of their members’ mandates. Accordingly, Le Pen and others are said to have used the funds for national political purposes, personal expenses or for the services of organizations affiliated with their party or faction.

The Paris prosecutor is investigating the allegations

Marine Le Pen, her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, her ex-partner Louis Aliot and former far-right MEP Bruno Gollnisch are said to have embezzled about 600,000 euros, which they had to repay. According to the report, Le Pen personally embezzled about € 137,000 in public funds during his tenure as Member of Parliament for Strasbourg between 2004 and 2017.

The Paris attorney confirmed to the AFP news agency on March 11 that he had received the report and was currently investigating it. Since June 2017, Marine Le Pen has been under investigation on suspicion of fraudulently employing party members as aides to the European Parliament. He was charged with “misappropriation of public funds” and “complicity” as part of a judicial inquiry.

Marine Le Pen, not the only politician from the former Front National (FN) party, now known as the “Rassemblement National”, was accused by the EU parliament of fraudulent employment. Her father and Colnish and others are said to have done the same.