Suspect expenses of the former National Rally group in the European Parliament amounted to 4.3 million euros.
Justice & Anti-CorruptionEuropean Union
- Omissions
- The €4.3 million figure refers to the Identity and Democracy (ID) parliamentary group, a larger far-right group that included Rassemblement National along with other parties such as Lega and the AfD, not exclusively the 'National Rally group'
- This is a separate case from the earlier parliamentary assistants embezzlement scandal involving RN (estimated at €4.8 million)
- The investigation was opened in 2025 regarding misuse of operating funds
- Sources found were published after the alleged period but contain data from before the session date of 2026-04-28
- Sources
- SecondaryLe MondeThe now-defunct far-right Identity and Democracy group, which included Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National, misused €4.3 million in operating funds
- SecondaryThe Jerusalem PostEU financial prosecutors said they had opened an investigation into the alleged misuse of 4.3 million euros ($5.04 million) of funds by Identity and Democracy group