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France's Far-Right Party, Marine Le Pen's National Front, Convicted of Fraud
France’s Far-Right Party Convicted of Fraud
PARIS (AFP) — A criminal court in Paris fined Marine Le Pen’s National Front $21,220 on Tuesday after convicting the far-right party for misuse of assets during the 2012 parliamentary elections.
A European MP for the party, since renamed the National Rally, and a close associate of Le Pen also received jail terms for fraud.
The party was acquitted of taking part in a fraudulent scheme to overcharge candidates for party election leaflets that were refunded by the state.
The scheme obliged each candidate standing for election for the National Front in 2012 to buy an election kit consisting of campaign material, such as posters and leaflets, from a micro-party linked to the central party.
The ready-made kit cost $18,814 but an investigation found that the true cost of the material was about $4,500. That was a large profit-margin for the makers, a company called Riwal run by an old friend of Marine Le Pen, Frederic Chatillon, who was handed the 10-month prison sentence.
More: https://www.courthousenews.com/frances-far-right-party-convicted-of-fraud/
PARIS (AFP) — A criminal court in Paris fined Marine Le Pen’s National Front $21,220 on Tuesday after convicting the far-right party for misuse of assets during the 2012 parliamentary elections.
A European MP for the party, since renamed the National Rally, and a close associate of Le Pen also received jail terms for fraud.
The party was acquitted of taking part in a fraudulent scheme to overcharge candidates for party election leaflets that were refunded by the state.
The scheme obliged each candidate standing for election for the National Front in 2012 to buy an election kit consisting of campaign material, such as posters and leaflets, from a micro-party linked to the central party.
The ready-made kit cost $18,814 but an investigation found that the true cost of the material was about $4,500. That was a large profit-margin for the makers, a company called Riwal run by an old friend of Marine Le Pen, Frederic Chatillon, who was handed the 10-month prison sentence.
More: https://www.courthousenews.com/frances-far-right-party-convicted-of-fraud/
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