‘Le Pen fake job scandal cost EU House $5.5 mn’

Paris: The European Parliament now believes the fake jobs scandal involving French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s National Front party has cost the institutions nearly $5.5 million, a source in the French probe said. The cost of the scandal, which involves the employment of assistants and a bodyguard, has risen to 4,978,122 eurosafter“newinformation” was discovered, the source said. Earlier the cost was estimated at $2 million. PTI