As well as a maximum 10-year prison term and $1.6 million fine, the misuse of public funds also carries a potential five-year ban from public office.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s main rival, Marine Le Pen faces a possible 10 years in prison as she goes on trial alongside dozens of members of her party over an alleged “fake jobs” scheme that took money from the European Union and channelled it into her far-right party.
As she arrived at court, Le Pen, who will plead not guilty alongside her colleagues, said: “We have not violated any political and regulatory rules of the European Parliament”. Many of the RN “assistants” were allegedly incapable of describing their day-to-day work and some never met their supposed MEP boss or set foot in the parliament building.
Four months after his parliamentary assistant contract began in 2015, Odoul asked Le Pen: “Could I come to Strasbourg tomorrow to see how a session works and get to know Mylene Troszczynski who I’m under?”Several people have testified about a 2014 meeting that one said discussed a clear “fake jobs” structure.
Her entourage pointed to the recent acquittal of François Bayrou, the leader of the French centrist MoDem party, in a similar case.
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