The European Parliament decided to recover more than €600,000 from Le Pen and her associates.

The Anti-Fraud Office believes that Le Pen and three members of her party, also former MEPs, squandered funds from the European Parliament budget for internal needs of the party

The European Parliament intends to recover €617,000 from French presidential candidate, leader of the far-right Rally National party, Marine Le Pen and her associates, after party members were accused of illegal spending, writes Le Figaro, citing AFP. Le Pen is directly accused of embezzling €137,000.

We are talking about spending allegedly committed when Le Pen was a member of the European Parliament.

The day before, the French edition of Mediapart published an article in which it reported, citing a report by the EU Anti-Fraud Office, that Le Pen and three other members of the “National Association” are suspected of embezzling money from the budget of the European Parliament. The report states that the funds were spent on internal purposes of the party: the purchase of promotional items, as well as wine for the party congress in 2014, travel expenses and hotel accommodation. In general, the costs cited by the Fraud Office relate to the period from 2007 to 2014, writes Mediapart.

The results of the first round of the presidential elections in France. Infographic Politics

“Their repeated deliberate actions over a number of years [...] and their misbehavior, given the level of their duties and responsibilities in the European Parliament, are sufficient grounds to suspect serious misconduct on the part of these four former MEPs. Their behavior and non-compliance with the rules means that they must be held accountable for their serious violations, ”the report says. He was taken to COURT.

Le Pen's spokesman, in a comment to Mediapart, denied the allegations and pointed out that the investigation took into account the period up to 2017, but the report appeared in the public field only now.

France is holding presidential elections. In the first round, Marine Le Pen won 23.15% of the vote, the current HEAD of state Emmanuel Macron - 27.84%. Politicians passed to the second round, the voting will take place on April 24.

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