Sputnik International
By Sofia Chegodaeva
May 9, 2022
In 2019, Francois Fillon, who served as France’s prime minister in 2007-2012, was charged with embezzlement of state funds over allegedly giving fictitious jobs to members of his family.
A French appeals court has upheld former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon’s conviction for setting his wife up with a job as a parliamentary assistant between 1998 and 2013, a local TV channel reported.