France: prosecutors probe financing of far right leader Marine Le Pen's 2022 presidential campaign over allegations of embezzlement, forgery, and fraud ( www.bbc.com ) Englisch

BestBouclettes , vor 17 Tagen

Big fucking suprise right?

A far right politician using public funds for private stuff, embezzling, corruption, fraud. That's like a requirement at this point.

homesweethomeMrL , vor 17 Tagen

The big fucking (non-)surprise is that there’s a boatload of russian money in there.

Future bonus non-shocker: what are the odds money from human trafficking is being laundered through them?

autotldr Bot , vor 17 Tagen

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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An investigation has been opened into the financing of French far right National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen's 2022 presidential campaign.Prosecutors in Paris said they will look into allegations of embezzlement, forgery and fraud, and that a candidate on an electoral campaign accepted a loan.The investigation was opened a week ago following a 2023 report by the National Commission on Campaign Accounts and Political Financing (CNCCFP).The commission's role is to scrutinise candidates' election expenses and funding and to flag any issues that arise.

No more details have been given on the reasons for the inquiry, nor has Ms Le Pen's camp commented.The RN has previously received loans from Russian and Hungarian banks.

The Russian loan worth €9.4m (£7.9m), however, was all paid back last year.

In 2017, the RN was charged with giving party members suspected fake jobs as assistants at the European Parliament.

A court will judge Ms Le Pen and 24 other members of her party over the alleged misuse of EU funds in September.A veteran of French politics, Ms Le Pen ran for president in 2012, 2017 and 2022.

She was re-elected to parliament during the first round of France's snap parliamentary election last month.Her party unexpectedly came third, despite having achieved a decisive victory in the European Parliament elections just weeks before.

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