French presidential election candidate Francois Fillon waves after delivering a speech during a campaign meeting in Orleans, France, on March 7, 2017. | Guillaume Souvant/AFP via Getty Images Fillon children funneled salaries to parents’ bank account: report French conservative candidate will learn this week if he will be placed under formal investigation over allegations of misused public funds.

Charles and Marie Fillon transferred to their parents a significant portion of the salaries they received for public-sector jobs given to them by their father, conservative French presidential candidate François Fillon, Le Parisien reported Monday.

Marie Fillon told a hearing last month that she transferred up to 70 percent of her net salary into her parents' joint bank account, which she claimed was to repay them for her 2006 wedding.

Charles transferred up to 30 percent of his salary, which Fillon's lawyer claimed was to cover rent and spending money.

The French presidential hopeful will on Wednesday meet with a judge who will determine whether to place him under formal investigation over allegations he misused public funds.

Fillon has come under fire after the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné reported he had employed his wife Penelope as a parliamentary aide and suggested she had done little work to earn her salary. The paper also revealed Marie reportedly earned a salary as a legal trainee while employed as a “senator’s assistant” for her father, earning a monthly salary of close to €3,800. Fillon’s son simultaneously worked for his father and for Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential campaign.

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