Report accuses Marine Le Pen of embezzlement of public funds in the European Parliament – RMC

A report by the European anti-fraud office accuses Marine Le Pen and some of her relatives of having embezzled 600,000 euros of European public money during their terms of office as MEPs. The report was sent to French justice. A blow to the presidential campaign of the RN candidate. Marine Le Pen and her relatives are accused by the European Anti-Fraud Office (Olaf) of having embezzled around 600,000 euros of European public money during their mandates as MEPs, according to a new report revealed on Saturday by Mediapart and handed over to French justice. The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that it received this report on March 11, which is currently being analyzed. Master Rodolphe Bosselut, Marine Le Pen’s lawyer, at RMC.”Already in 2017, on the basis of a previous report from Olaf which is dated 2014, it had been transmitted in such a way that at the first turn of the election, Madame Le Pen had been summoned by the investigating judges. I understand that the investigation started in 2016 and we have been told that it was transmitted these days in the middle of the presidential campaign”, continues Marine Le Pen’s lawyer. Maître Bosselut also says he is “appalled by the way Olaf (European anti-fraud office) acts, without contradictory character” and on “old facts of more than ten years” for some. Marine Le Pen “was not summoned by any judicial authority f French whatsoever”, he added, deploring also that neither he nor his client were recipients of the final report. Jean-Marie Le Pen and Louis Aliot called into question Olaf’s new report, whose Mediapart publishes extracts, concerns the fees that political groups can use in the context of their mandate as MEPs and that Marine Le Pen and her relatives would have used for national political purposes, for personal expenses or for benefits for the benefit of commercial companies close to the National Rally and the far-right parliamentary group Europe of Nations and Freedoms (ENL). Olaf implicates Marine Le Pen, three other former MEPs – her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, her former companion Louis Aliot and Bruno Gollnisch, member of the national office of the RN-, and the ENL. The Office accuses them of having embezzled around 600,000 euros, which he recommends reimbursement. According to the report, the candidate of the National Rally would have personally embezzled around 137,000 euros of public money from the Strasbourg Parliament when she was an MEP between 2004 and 2017. Since June 2017, Marine Le Pen has also been prosecuted in the investigation carried out in Paris. on suspicion of fictitious jobs in the European Parliament of party assistants. She is indicted for “embezzlement of public funds” and “complicity” in this offense as part of this judicial investigation.