Former French prime minister Francois Fillon will learn Monday whether an appeals court has upheld his conviction for setting his wife up with lucrative fake jobs.
A French appeals court on Monday upheld a conviction against former right-wing prime minister Francois Fillon for providing a fake parliamentary assistant job to his wife that saw her paid hundreds of…
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A Paris appeals court has upheld the verdict in principle against Fillon, who had apparently employed his wife. However, the judges have reduced the sentence – the former prime minister will probably not have to go to prison.