Welsh wife if Elysee hopeful Francois Fillon handed 'fraud' charges

The British wife of French presidential candidate Francois Fillon is facing preliminary charges over well-paid parliamentary jobs that investigators suspect she never performed.

Penelope Fillon, who originally comes from Abergavenny in Wales, was charged with "misuse of public funds", "receiving money from a misuse of company assets" and "receiving money from a fraud", judicial sources said.