{"id":397351,"date":"2017-07-01T10:49:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T10:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/01\/frances-marine-le-pen-charged-over-funding-scandal\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T10:49:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T10:49:18","slug":"frances-marine-le-pen-charged-over-funding-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/01\/frances-marine-le-pen-charged-over-funding-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"France’s Marine Le Pen charged over funding scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been placed under formal investigation over an alleged European parliament funding scandal.<\/p>\n

The allegations were passed to French investigators who have opened a case.<\/p>\n

The parliament suspects some \u20ac5m (\u00a34m; $5.4m) went to assistants of Ms Le Pen\u2019s National Front (FN) who were not working for MEPs but were actually engaged in FN party work in France.<\/p>\n

The National Front has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

Ms Le Pen, 48, has also denied any wrongdoing and has said the case is politically motivated.<\/p>\n

The alleged fraudulent payments \u2013 from 2012 onwards \u2013 concern her and several other FN MEPs.<\/p>\n

The allegations first arose on 27 April, ahead of the second round of voting in the French presidential election.<\/p>\n

Ms Le Pen was soundly beaten by Emmanuel Macron, by 66% to 34%. She later won a seat in the French parliament in legislative elections.<\/p>\n

Ms Le Pen had refused to answer questions on the matter during the campaign but said she would co-operate after the final round of presidential election voting.<\/p>\n

Her lawyer said she had been summoned by magistrates in Paris and \u201cas expected, placed under criminal investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n

The FN has been highly critical of the EU, rejecting its free-market principles and open-border policies.<\/p>\n

The BBC\u2019s Hugh Schofield in Paris says most voters drawn to the FN are already highly suspicious of the EU, and may not see the alleged fraud as a particularly serious matter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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