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French police search National Front office in anti-fraud probe

Xinhua, February 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

French police on Wednesday raided the offices of the far-right National Front in Nanterre, Paris' western suburbs, over salaries paid to EU parliamentary assistants, local media reported.

According to the daily Le Figaro, investigators were searching for evidence of alleged financial irregularities by allowing 20 lawmakers' assistants to be paid by the EU while they worked on national issues.

European Parliament law implies that assistants must work directly for members of European Parliament (MEPs) to receive wages from the European institution.

On its Facebook account, the anti-immigration party denounced the "pitiful affair" which "has no legal basis."

On Tuesday, police also raided home and office of the party's founder Jean-Marie Le Pen as part of the same inquiry. Endit