(National-UAE) French police have launched an investigation into a town hall official in a Paris suburb accused of having links with the Muslim Brotherhood, months after the government announced new measures to fight the organisation.
The official is described by French media as the right-hand man of Mayor Patrick Chaimovitch, of the city of Colombes north-west of Paris, who is affiliated to the left-wing Greens party.
The prosecutor’s office, which has its headquarters in nearby Nanterre, launched an investigation over alleged “illegal acquisition of interest and money laundering” after the local prefect Alexandre Brugere filed a report.
Police started by searching the home of the official, Stephane Tchouhan, before seizing documents related to the financing of local grassroots organisations from the town hall.
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