Former French president Jacques Chirac was given a two-year suspended jail sentence on Thursday after he was convicted of embezzling public money to finance his political party.It seems that money most often motivates the creation of ghost armies of public workers. For Chirac, diverting public funds to his political operation accomplished much the same outcome.
Sentenced for creating fake civil service jobs while he was mayor of Paris between 1977 and 1995, Chirac is the first former French President to be convicted of a criminal offence since the Second World War.
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