Probe of France's Fillon Widened to Suspected Fraud, Forgery

French presidential candidate Francois Fillon's legal problems deepened on Tuesday, with financial prosecutors expanding a probe into payments to his family to suspected "aggravated fraud, forgery and use of forgeries," a judicial source said.

Investigators are looking at whether Fillon and his wife Penelope forged documents to try to justify the around 700,000 euros ($757,000) she earned for a suspected fake job as a parliamentary assistant, the source said.

Fillon, 63, has already been charged with misuse of public funds but has refused to bow out of the running for president.