The MoDem and the UDF were indicted in December for "
complicity and concealment of embezzlement of public funds
" in the investigation into suspicions of fictitious jobs of parliamentary assistants of centrist MEPs, AFP learned on Thursday January 6 from sources familiar with the matter.
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Fifteen people, including François Bayrou, former Minister of Justice Michel Mercier and former MEPs Sylvie Goulard, Nathalie Griesbeck and Jean-Luc Bennahmias, have already been prosecuted in this judicial investigation conducted since 2017 by investigating judges from the financial center of the Paris judicial court.