Vice-President of MoDem Marielle de Sarnez has been indicted for "embezzlement of public funds", as part of the investigation into the allegedly fictitious jobs of assistants of MEPs MoDem.

MoDem Vice President Marielle de Sarnez was indicted on Wednesday for "embezzlement of public funds" in the investigation into the allegedly fictitious jobs of MEPs' assistants from the centrist party. Marielle de Sarnez has been indicted for the contract of a former assistant, according to a source familiar with the case. Regarding the contracts of five other assistants examined by the judges, she was placed under the intermediate status of assisted witness, according to the same source. Former minister Sylvie Goulard, who had failed to be appointed to the new European Commission, was also indicted in the same case.

The magistrates seek to determine whether parliamentary collaborators have been paid by European Parliament funds when they were in fact assigned to other tasks for the centrist party. The opening of a preliminary investigation by the Paris prosecutor's office in June 2017 led to the resignation of François Bayrou from the post of Minister of Justice, as well as those of Marielle de Sarnez from the post of Minister for European Affairs and Sylvie. Goulard of the post of Minister of the Armies.