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François Fillon, photographed on June 16 during the 24 hours of Le Mans, a car race organized every year in the city of the same name. LOIC VENANCE / AFP

Indicted in March 2017, François Fillon was again heard Friday, September 7, 2018, by the investigating judges in charge of the investigation of the allegedly fictitious jobs of his wife Penelope and their children in Parliament. Information revealed by Le Parisien and confirmed by Agence France-Presse.

The former French Prime Minister back in front of the investigating judges. Francois Fillon was again heard Friday in Paris - it is the procedure - in the premises of the financial center of the High Court, the day after a new hearing of his wife Penelope, still according to AFP.

The former candidate of the right (Republicans) in the 2017 presidential election is indicted in this case. Investigating judges investigate allegedly fictitious jobs of his wife and children as parliamentary assistants.

The research also covers the salaries received from May 2012 to December 2013 by Penelope Fillon for a job in a literary magazine, Revue des deux mondes , owned by a businessman close to the former head of government, Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere.

In total, four people are indicted in the " Penelopegate ": the spouses Fillon, Mr. Ladreit de Lacharrière, but also Marc Joulaud , former substitute of Mr. Fillon at the Bourbon Palace. The couple's children, Marie and Charles, are under the status of assisted witnesses in this case.

Simple, justiciable Fillon, far from the political world to which he dedicated his life

From January 2017, the winner of the primary right and center had seen his campaign, under the weight of press revelations, finish collapsing, while he was the favorite in the race at the Elysee two months earlier.

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Charged in the middle of the campaign , Mr. Fillon is prosecuted for "misappropriation of public funds", "complicity and concealment of abuse of corporate property", "failure to meet the reporting obligations".

At 64, the former leader of the majority of President Sarkozy is officially removed from politics since his historic defeat in the first round of 2017, a poll in which he was third . A year ago, he joined the investment and asset management company Tikehau Capital as a partner.

François Fillon was heard on the merits of the case at the end of July 2017. He defended the reality of his wife's parliamentary assistant jobs in the National Assembly, between 1986 and 2013 when he was a member of parliament, and his children in the Senate, between 2005 and 2007 when he was a senator.

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