Former French president Jacques Chirac has to face prosecution over 'fake' employment contacts drawn up under his mayoral authority, a judicial official has ordered.
Judge Xaviere Simeoni has ordered that the former French leader be tried along with nine other accomplices for their alleged roles in the issuance of 35 'false' employment contracts. The contracts were for the former president's allies in Rally for the Republic Party, RPR, during Chirac's time as the Paris mayor from 1977 to 1995.
The judge outlined in his edict that Chirac helped create the so-called ghost jobs at Paris City Hall and paid his party associates an estimated sum of 4.5 million Euros (6.68 million dollars) in order to disburse RPR expenses.
The 76-year-old Chirac has rejected the charges outright and said in a statement that he remained "calm and determined" to disprove the arbiter's decree.
Chirac's corruption charges come despite a recommendation by the Paris public prosecutor, who had advised Simeoni to drop the case against the former president.
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