(Christopher Morris/VII/Redux)When French politician Marine Le Pen needed cash for her far-right party, an obscure Russian bank agreed to help. The Le Pen loan, analysts say, is an example of how it works. In search of money from a non-French bank, party officials turned to Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, a member of the European Parliament elected as part of Le Pen’s party bloc. (Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty Images)Marine Le Pen and her father, former National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, in Lyon in 2014. Le Pen’s party agrees.

Source: Washington Post December 27, 2018 14:48 UTC