Accused of having embezzled European public money, Marine Le Pen denounces “a dirty trick from the EU”
Traveling to Saint-Pierre-en-Auge, in Calvados, the candidate of the National Rally was questioned on the accusations of embezzlement of European public money. “I obviously absolutely contest these accusations, of which I was not aware, which already poses a problem in terms of the rule of law, of which I have not been provided with any proof, any element, despite the requests that I was able to do “, she denounced this Monday. Mme Le Pen also deplored during this trip “the dirty tricks of the European Union, a few days before the second round. I’m very used to that and the French are absolutely not fooled”.
According to a report by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), revealed by the website Mediapart this Saturday, “the financial impact of the facts observed amounts to at least 617,379.77 euros”. The file was sent to the Paris public prosecutor’s office on March 11 and to the European Parliament, which, for its part, will “proceed in the coming weeks with recoveries” of these sums.
The RN candidate is accused of having misused 136,993.99 euros of community money when she was an MEP, between 2004 and 2017. Her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, for his part, allegedly embezzled 303,545.76 euros. The report also quotes Bruno Gollnisch for 43,257 euros, the far-right political group 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. . These facts “are likely to give rise to criminal proceedings against former deputies (…) for the fraudulent acts they have committed to the detriment of the Union budget”judges OLAF, which speaks of” scam “of ” fake “of” breach of trust “of “embezzlement of public funds” for national political or personal purposes, over-billing, or even benefits “fictitious” for the benefit of companies often gravitating in the frontist nebula, or even of ” conflicts of interest “.