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French ex-prime minister Fillon and his wife, prosecuted for corruption

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The judges recommend a trial against the former French prime minister François Fillon and his wife Penelope. That is Tuesday, learned from judicial sources. The torque is transferred to the criminal court referred to a specialist.

Fillon is suspected that he, his wife and children fictitious employed as a parliamentary assistant and of them generously paid.

There is nothing wrong with that, it should be the French law. Only: Penelope performed in return for its generous wages, no ball, according to Le Canard Enchaîné, the sheet that the case revealed. Fillon denies the allegations mordicus.

In the nearly two-year investigation, he was in suspicion of embezzlement of public money’ and of ‘receiving of stolen goods and complicity in misuse of corporate assets’. Also he would have the legal obligation to transparency as a government employee are not met.

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