Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has been handed a five-year prison sentence for fraud.
A court in Paris found him guilty of misusing public funds and embezzlement, for setting up fake jobs for his wife and their children.

His wife received more than a million dollars and has been convicted as an accomplice.

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