Leading French presidential candidate Francois Fillon paid his wife 500 000 euros as a parliamentary assistant when he was prime minister - and former members of his team say she was never seen in the office.
The right wing candidate has a reputation for being clean of the string of corruption scandals that hit the Nicolas Sarkozy cabinet in which he served.
Our Europe correspondent Elena Casas reports from Brussels.
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