Le Pen Faces Probe for 2022 French Election Campaign Funding
- The far-right leader suspected of unlawfully taking a loan
- Report comes after National Rally came 3rd in legislative vote
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen faces an investigation over suspicions of illegal campaign financing related to her unsuccessful 2022 bid for the presidency — just as a poll places her as the front runner in the next race.
The Paris prosecutor opened the case after it was alerted by the country’s campaign-funding watchdog in 2023, an official said in an email. The probe was escalated last week and passed on to an investigative judge with wider powers. BFM TV first published the news on Tuesday.