The far-right candidate to the presidential election and his relatives are charged by the European Anti-Fraud Office for hiking more than 600,000 euros during their mandates of MEPs, according to a report revealed by “Mediapart “.
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Marine Le Pen and his loved ones are once again suspected of having diverted money from the European Parliament as part of their mandate as a MEP. According to a report of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), revealed by The Mediapart site Saturday, April 16,” The financial impact of the facts noted amounts to at least 617,379.77 euros. ” The file was sent to the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office, March 11, and the European Parliament, which, for its part, could request the recovery of these sums.
The candidate of the national gathering (Rn) in the presidential election is criticized for having misused 136,993.99 euros of Community money when she was a European member, between 2004 and 2017. His father, Jean-Marie The Pen, would have diverted 303 545.76 euros. The report also quotes Bruno Gollnisch for 43 257 euros, the political group of extreme right Europe of nations and freedoms (enl) for 131 089 euros and the former companion of Marine Le Pen, Louis Aliot, for 2,493.22 euros .
The events updated “are likely to give rise to criminal prosecutions against former members […] for the fraudulent acts they committed to the detriment of the Union’s budget,” OLAF, who speaks of “scam”, “false”, “abuse of trust”, “diversion of public funds” for national or personal policy, surfacturation, or even “fictitious” benefits, for the benefit of companies often gravitying in the front-border nebula, or “conflicts of interest”.
129 bottles of wine and champagne
Examples are legion. Thus, the European Parliament reimbursed for 23,100 euros of promotional objects (bags, pens, and other keychains) which have been delivered to the party headquarters and, note OLAF, which “seem to have been purchased for the Congress From the FN to Lyon “in 2014. That same year, Marine Le Pen and his father each presented at the Community Legislative Assembly an invoice of 5,000 euros supposed to concern the creation of a website in their name. Which “have never been created,” says OLAF.
The report also evokes these “personal repayment requests” by Jean-Marie Le Pen, who, on December 28, 2016, a few days from the New Year, ordered 129 bottles of wine and champagne for more than 8 500 euros and presented the invoice to the institution of Strasbourg. However, 113 of these bottles were delivered to its MANOIR OF WORLD ALL (Hauts-de-Seine), where the founder of the National Front (FN) has his offices. He has transmitted “no evidence that this order was related to his activities in the European Parliament,” Note OLAF.
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