French Prosecutors Extend Investigation Into Fillon
- Probe will look into possible embezzlement, influence peddling
- Republican candidate’s lawyers welcome prosecutor’s decision
Francois Fillon Stays in French Presidential Race
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French prosecutors extended a probe into Republican presidential candidate Francois Fillon’s employment of his wife as a parliamentary aide, saying further investigation is needed and pushing any conclusion of the case until after the election.
Prosecutors said that after the police conducted inquiries they decided to put an investigative judge in charge the preliminary probe “given the longstanding nature of some of the events concerned.”