The parliamentary assistants affair involved between 3 and 5 million euros.
Justice & Anti-CorruptionEuropean Union
- Omissions
- The claim refers specifically to the National Front (now Rassemblement National) assistants affair, which was the most prominent case of alleged embezzlement involving parliamentary assistants.
- The 5 million euro figure was cited by legal sources in 2017 as the potential cost to the European Parliament, while earlier estimates had been lower (around 300,000-400,000 euros for specific individuals).
- The affair involved allegations that MEPs used EU parliamentary funds to pay assistants who were actually working for the party rather than for the Parliament.
- Sources
- SecondaryBBC NewsLe Pen's National Front 'took 5m euros from EU' - The European Parliament alleges fraud by the French presidential candidate's nationalists involving misuse of EU funds for parliamentary assistants.
- SecondaryDW NewsEU parliament lost 5 million euros in Le Pen alleged jobs fraud - Misuse of funds by Marine Le Pen's party may have cost the European Parliament more than twice as much as estimated, a source has said.