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Probe of France's Fillon widened to suspected fraud, forgery

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French presidential candidate Francois Fillon's legal problems deepened today, with financial prosecutors expanding a probe into payments to his family to suspected "aggravated fraud, forgery and use of forgeries", a judicial source said.

Investigators are looking at whether Fillon and his wife Penelope forged documents to try to justify the around 700,000 euros (USD 757,000) she earned for a suspected fake job as a parliamentary assistant, the source said.

Fillon, 63, has already been charged with misuse of public funds but has refused to bow out of the running for president.

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First Published: Mar 22 2017 | 1:28 AM IST

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