On June 17, 2025, François Fillon, former French Prime Minister, was sentenced to a four-year suspended prison term, fined €375,000, and barred from seeking public office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling public funds by paying his wife for a fake parliamentary assistant job—a scandal that derailed his 2017 presidential campaign. The court concluded there was no evidence of actual work performed, though Fillon maintained the charges were politically motivated and claimed that similar practices were widespread among lawmakers.
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