- François and Penelope Fillon were tried in March for "embezzlement of public funds" and "abuse of social assets".
- Penelope Fillon is suspected of having had a fictitious job as a collaborator with him when he was a Member of Parliament.
- During the hearing, the prosecution had asked for heavy sentences and fines against them.
- But, while the decision was to be made on Monday, François Fillon asked that the proceedings be reopened after the statements of the former financial prosecutor on the pressures she suffered in this case.
François Fillon, Pénélope Fillon and their deputy Marc Joulaud were all found guilty in the highly publicized Fillon trial which delivered its verdict this Monday around 1:30 p.m. For the court, Pénélope Fillon “never performed any real work, beyond a few tasks. In any case nothing that could not justify the remuneration received. The Fillon couple is found guilty of "embezzlement of public funds" and "abuse of social property".
At the heart of the trial are the suspicions of embezzlement of public funds surrounding the jobs of parliamentary collaborator of Penelope Fillon, prosecuted for "fictitious or overvalued services". Her activities in Sarthe, with her deputy husband and his deputy, deserved to be remunerated under parliamentary assistant contracts?
Between 1998 and 2013, the discreet 64-year-old Welshwoman received a total of 613,000 euros net under contracts known only to a few relatives. The Fillon, whose lawyers have pleaded for release, have described tasks that are for the most part oral (being "the eyes and ears" of the deputy, "order giver" for mail arriving at their Sarthois manor ...) but essential, according to them, to the career of the politician.
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