PARIS, March 31 (Bernama-dpa) - A criminal court in Paris found French far-right nationalist politician Marine Le Pen guilty in an embezzlement case on Monday, German Press Agency (dpa) reported.
A sentence has not yet been handed down and it remains unclear how the verdict might impact her political career.
in addition to a jail sentence and a fine, the prosecution has demanded that Le Pen be banned from standing for election for five years.
The central accusation was that Le Pen's National Rally party received money from the European Parliament for parliamentary assistants who were actually working either partly or wholly for the party itself.
The case was viewed as a major setback in Le Pen's efforts to normalise the party's image. A total of 28 defendants were accused in the case, which is said to involve a sum of almost €7 million (US$7.3 million).
The allegations, which relate to the years 2004 to 2016, have dogged Le Pen and her party for years.
-- BERNAMA-dpa
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