French centrist leader Francois Bayrou charged over funds misuse

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French veteran centrist leader Francois Bayrou was Friday charged with

“complicity in siphoning off public money” in a case related to the embezzlement of European Parliament funds, a judicial source said.

“This indictment, announced in advance to the media, is unfounded,” Bayrou’s lawyer Pierre Cornut-Gentille told AFP.Bayrou, 68, was questioned for 10 hours, a source said. Magistrates are investigating whether they received European Parliament funds for assistants who were in fact carrying out other tasks for the centrist party.

Marielle De Sarnez, MoDem’s vice-president, was also charged on Wednesday over the “siphoning of public funds” through a former assistant’s contract.

 

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