French financial police on Thursday questioned France's scandal-hit labour minister, Eric Woerth, as part of a continuing investigation into the financial affairs of billionaire L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. Woerth, who has been forced to quit his post as treasurer of the ruling UMP party, has been accused of accepting illegal campaign donations from France's richest woman in a widening scandal that has rocked the government of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. FRANCE 24's French Politics Editor Marc Perelman said police questioned Woerth over three separate incidents that have come to haunt the embattled minister.
French financial police on Thursday questioned France's scandal-hit labour minister, Eric Woerth, as part of a continuing investigation into the financial affairs of billionaire L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.
Woerth, who has been forced to quit his post as treasurer of the ruling UMP party, has been accused of accepting illegal campaign donations from France's richest woman in a widening scandal that has rocked the government of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
FRANCE 24's French Politics Editor Marc Perelman said police questioned Woerth over three separate incidents that have come to haunt the embattled minister.
