A report accuses Marine Le Pen of having embezzled €137,000: what do we know about these revelations? – Free lunch

This Saturday, April 16, Mediapart revealed a report from the European Anti-Fraud Office (Olaf), accusing the RN candidate and her relatives of having embezzled public money as part of their European mandate. The point on these revelations. A revelation that comes at the wrong time for the candidate of the National Rally. One week before the second round, Médiapart reveals a report from Olaf (European anti-fraud office) accusing the candidate and several party members of having embezzled public money. What does the report say? According to extracts from the report published by Mediapart, quoted by AFP, Olaf is targeting the costs that political groups can spend on elected officials as part of their mandate as MEPs. According to the office, Marine Le Pen and several relatives would have used these fees for personal purposes, when they are supposed to serve in the political context. The report would indicate that elected officials have, for example, paid money to commercial companies that are close to the national rally. Who is concerned ? The European anti-fraud office implicates in its report the president of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen. But it also implicates three relatives of the presidential candidate, namely Jean-Marie Le Pen, Louis Aliot who is his ex-companion and the current mayor of Perpignan, and Bruno Gollnisch, member of the national office of the RN . What amounts are we talking about? The expenses in question would reach 600,000 euros in total according to Olaf, which advocates reimbursement, reports TF1. Regarding Marine Le Pen, she would have embezzled 137,000 euros of public money. Are the facts recent? They relate to the alleged actions of Marine Le Pen during her mandate as an MEP, a mandate spanning from 2004 to 2017. Olaf’s investigation, it would have started in 2016 and the report was submitted to the Paris prosecutor’s office, which confirms to AFP that it received it on March 11. On these facts, Marine le Pen was simply questioned by mail in March 2021, reports her lawyer. She “was not summoned by any French judicial authority whatsoever”, indicates Me Rodolphe Bosselut, who is also surprised “at the always strong timing about the revelation” and its “instrumentalization”.