PARIS: Former French prime minister Francois Fillon will learn on Monday whether an appeals court has upheld his conviction for setting his wife up with lucrative fake jobs.
The 68-year-old was convicted by a lower court in 2020 and sentenced to five years in jail, three of them suspended. On top of jail time and fines, the Fillons and Joulaud were ordered in 2020 to repay more than one million euros to France's National Assembly lower house. Penelope also had a job as"literary consultant" at the Revue des Deux Mondes magazine owned by Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere, described by the prosecution as an"indulgence" for his friend Fillon.
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