Revelations about the probe torpedoed conservative Fillon‘s 2017 presidential campaign, leaving the way clear for centrist Emmanuel Macron — re-elected to a second term last month.
The 68-year-old was convicted by a lower court in 2020 and sentenced to five years in jail, three of them suspended.
At the November appeals hearing, prosecutors said there was clear evidence that Fillon and his stand-in as MP for the Sarthe department, Marc Joulaud, employed Fillon’s wife Penelope in an “intangible” or “tenuous” role as a parliamentary assistant between 1998 and 2013.
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