Former French Prime Minister François Fillon was sentenced to five years in prison for hiring his wife as a parliamentary assistant, a position he never held and for which he has pocketed more than €600,000. The Court of Appeal has reduced the prison sentence from five to four years.
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Former French Prime Minister, Francois Fillona key figure in Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency, was sentenced this Monday to: four years in prisonone of them obliges, among other sanctions, for the fictitious hiring of his wife as a parliamentary assistant
The Paris court of appeals issued a ruling on Monday, which, along with the years in prison, sentences the former prime minister to pay a fine between 2007 and 2012. fine of 375,000 euros and a sentence of ten years’ disbarmentaccording to the French television BFM TV.
In this way, the French judiciary is reducing the first sentence of the Paris Criminal Court, handed down in June 2020, which sentenced Fillon to five years in prison, two of which are mandatory.
For her part, the wife of François Fillon, Penelope, was given a suspended sentence of two years in prison, an additional two years in prison and a fine of an additional €375,000. Next to her the deputy Marc Jolandclose to the former prime minister, has also been sentenced to three years in prison for hiring the former prime minister’s wife as a parliamentary attaché.
The case started in early 2017 when the satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaine discovered the hiring of Penelope Fillon as her husband’s assistant between 1998 and 2013, a job that denounces the accuser never came to practice and for which Penelope hoarded more than 600,000 euros.
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Source: EITB
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