Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right National Front, was charged on Friday for "embezzlement of public funds" over allegations he illegally claimed money from the European parliament to pay France-based staff, lawyers told AFP.
Some 66.5 million bottles of wine, the equivalent of 13 Olympic sized swimming pools full of plonk, was falsely sold as high quality Côtes-du-Rhône wine, French officials have revealed.
Thinking she had won big in the EuroMillions lottery, a 46-year-old Frenchwoman did what just about anyone would do - she started spending the jackpot immediately.
French women named Josette are advised to be on their guard after three women with that name were targeted by a fraudster in the northern city of Rouen. Several other Josettes are also thought to have been targeted.
French police have urged the country’s taxpayers to be on guard after fraudsters sent out thousands of emails asking recipients for their credit card details in return for a fake “tax refund”.
The billionaire French businessman Serge Dassault was charged on Thursday with vote buying and campaign finance violations in connection with a scheme to influence elections in the Parisian suburb where he was once mayor, sources said.
US authorities are investigating the French banks Societe Generale, BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole for embezzlement and violating American sanctions against other countries, a source close to the matter said Friday.
A Frenchman convicted of carbon trading fraud that cost the state some €1.6 billion ($2.2 billion) has gone on the run, a judicial source said Saturday, admitting that his electronic tracking bracelet had stopped working.
France's highest court on Wednesday upheld several convictions for "organized fraud" against the Church of Scientology. A representative from the Church told The Local the ruling was tantamount to "religious persecution" by France.
The estranged wife of France's disgraced former Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac has been charged with tax fraud and money laundering in the same scandal that cost her husband his job, a judicial source said on Friday.
French trader Fabrice Tourre, known as 'Faboulous Fab', a former Goldman Sachs banker, was convicted by jurors in New York on Thursday of committing fraud in a mortgage-linked security sale that floundered.
Swiss bank Reyl and Cie, under investigation in France for enabling tax fraud, said Saturday it had filed a criminal complaint against a former employee who testified in the case.
The head of Orange France (formerly operating as France Telecom) was charged with fraud on Wednesday by French police investigating alleged corruption involving French politician and IMF chief Christine Lagarde.
Paris investigators are formally investigating the French branch of Swiss bank UBS on suspicion it helped try to persuade rich French clients to open undeclared accounts in Switzerland, a legal source said.
High ranking ministers in the French government can expect a grilling in the coming days as an investigation into a tax fraud scandal got underway on Tuesday. The probe was set up after the former budget minister admitted having a secret bank account.
A French appeals court Wednesday ordered the release of US real estate magnate Michael Mastro and his wife, detained since October for feigned bankruptcy, but placed them under house arrest.
French police on Tuesday questioned ex-prime minister Dominique de Villepin over an alleged embezzlement scheme at a luxury hotel chain that was run by a friend of the conservative politician.
<p><span id="internal-source-marker_0.5378276423052898">An alleged tax dodging scheme by Mircosoft’s French subsidiary has been revealed following an inspection at the end of June, at which the head of the tax office and 37 judiciary police were present.</span></p>
<p>A swindler in Paris's wealthy western suburbs targetted wealthy grannies, using the phone book to spot potential victims with old-fashioned names. </p>
<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">A Frenchman who pretended to be an emergency coordinator and organized rescue operations after a storm hit France in 2010 has gone on trial for fraud. </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Two French manufacturers of breast implants are offering discounts to women who have received faulty implants from scandal-hit rival PIP.</span></p>
