Marine Le Pen, May 16, 2019 in Fessenheim. - FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP

A Russian firm has sued Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN), currently in financial difficulty, for not having repaid a loan of some 9 million euros contracted in Russia in 2014, according to documents consulted on Tuesday by AFP.

A complaint for the recovery of a credit

According to these documents available on the site of the Court of Arbitration of Moscow, the company "Aviazaptchast", specialized in spare parts for aircraft, filed on December 10 a complaint against RN for the "recovery of a credit".

It is a sum of 639,750,767 rubles (about 9.14 million euros at the current rate) equivalent to the loan contracted in 2014 by the National Front, predecessor of the RN, from a Russian bank, the First Czech-Russian Bank.

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