A new report published on Saturday by

Mediapart

and submitted to French justice reveals that Marine Le Pen (RN) and her relatives are accused by the European anti-fraud office of having embezzled around 600,000 euros of European public money during their mandates as MEPs. 

Asked by AFP, the Paris prosecutor's office confirmed that it had received this report on March 11, which is currently being analyzed.

An investigation opened since 2016

"I am surprised by the always strong timing about the revelation" and its "instrumentalization", reacted to

AFP

Me Rodolphe Bosselut, the lawyer for Marine Le Pen, campaigning for the second round of the presidential election.

Marine Le Pen "has not been summoned by any French judicial authority whatsoever", he added, deploring also that neither he nor his client were recipients of the final report.

Olaf's investigation has been open since 2016 and Ms Le Pen was interviewed by post in March 2021.

Nearly 600,000 euros embezzled 

Olaf's new report, of which

Mediapart

publishes extracts, concerns the fees that political groups can use in the context of their mandate as MEPs and that Marine Le Pen and those close to her would have used for national political purposes, to personal expenses or for services for the benefit of nearby commercial companies. 

Olaf implicates Marine Le Pen, three other former MEPs - her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, her former companion Louis Aliot and Bruno Gollnisch, member of the national office of the RN, and the ENL.

The office accuses them of having embezzled around 600,000 euros, of which it recommends reimbursement.

According to the report, the candidate of the National Rally would have personally embezzled around 137,000 euros of public money from the Parliament of Strasbourg when she was an MEP between 2004 and 2017.

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