Marin Le Pen is accused of illegally paying his aides almost five million euros from EU funds. Earlier, the named amount of 1.9 million was revised due to "new circumstances," a number of French media reported, citing their sources in the investigation.
On Wednesday, the European Parliament began the procedure for depriving Marin Le Pen of his immunity, which hampers the investigation of this case. Le Pen himself declares that the case is political and does not want to cooperate with the investigation.
Earlier it was reported that the French police conducted interrogations of the bodyguard and the head of the staff Marin Le Pen on the misuse of money from the EU. Assistants are accused of getting money for work as assistant to the deputy of the European Parliament, although they did not do this work.
Recall, on February 20 the French police conducted a search at the headquarters of the right-populist party "National Front" in Paris, which is headed by French presidential candidate Marin Le Pen.