French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been charged with misusing European Parliament funds relating to the payment of parliamentary aides.
The prosecutor's office said Le Pen was handed preliminary charges of breach of trust and complicity in breach of trust concerning two of her aides when she served at the European Parliament.
She was elected to the French parliament this month so gave up her seat in the European Parliament.
One of the aides in question, Catherine Griset, a senior aide at Le Pen's National Front party, was charged in February in the case.