French investigators have requested the European Parliament to waive the immunity of far-right presidential hopeful Marine le Pen in a probe over her alleged misuse of European Union funds to pay for party assistants, the media reported on Friday.
According to reports, Paris’s prosecutor’s office launched an investigation in 2015 to look into the EU parliamentary assistants fraudulently paid for their services with EU funds while working for le Pen’s National Front (FN) party.
In particular, le Pen’s personal assistant had reportedly received about 340,000 euros ($360,000) of EU money, Europe 1 broadcaster reported.
The request for waiving le Pen’s parliamentary immunity was filed in the European Parliament in late March.