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Shkruar nga PamfletiParis prosecutors have launched an investigation to shed light on alleged illegal financing of Marine Le Pen's campaign during the 2022 presidential election.
The investigation, which began on July 2, follows a 2023 report by the National Campaign Accounts and Political Finance Commission (CNCCFP), which examines election spending and candidate financing.
This investigation will examine allegations of embezzlement, forgery and fraud. In French elections, candidates are prohibited from exceeding a certain spending limit. But the 55-year-old, who leads the National Rally in France, is not the only candidate in the 2022 presidential election to be investigated.
The report highlights several irregularities such as borrowing from a legal entity to a candidate during the election campaign, misappropriation of assets by persons holding public functions, fraud committed against a public body and forgery and the use of forgeries.
The authority, which must control the electoral campaign expenses of the candidates, which have a ceiling and a part is reimbursed by the state, had denounced the irregularities in the Prosecutor's Office.
In December 2022, the same body had fixed the expenses for painting 12 rented buses with the symbol of the candidate and the party, for an amount of 316,182 euros. The expenses were considered "irregular".
Marine Le Pen had appealed to the Constitutional Council and then abandoned the initiative. The former candidate invested about 11.5 million euros in the election campaign, where she came third.
Le Pen and her party have previously denied allegations of campaign financing.
Le Pen will go on trial later this year along with 27 others for alleged misuse of European Union funds, charges which Le Pen's party has said it disputes.
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