French Far-Right leader Marine Le Pen thrust her mobile phone down her cleavage to keep it out of the hands of fraud inspectors who raided Front National headquarters, daring them to “come and get it”, say French reports.

The piquant incident is said to have taken place in February when detectives turned up at FN headquarters in Nanterre, west of Paris, as part of a preliminary probe into whether up to €7.5 million (£5.8 million) of European funds earmarked for MEPs had been illegally channelled to FN party employees.

According to l’Express magazine, when inspectors arrived, Ms Le Pen started filming the scene with her mobile. After repeated requests to stop filming, fraud officers lunged for the phone only to see it disappear down Ms Le Pen’s ample cleavage.