It is reported by BFMTV.
It is specified that the Paris Court of Appeal found Fillon guilty of embezzlement of public funds, complicity and concealment of misuse of corporate assets.
At the same time, the ex-premier's wife Penélope Fillon was sentenced to two years of probation.
In November 2021, it was reported that a representative of the French Prosecutor General's Office demanded that Fillon be sentenced to five years in prison in the case of fictitious employment of his wife.