PARIS
Chirac to be grilled over funding
Former French president Chirac will be questioned in the coming weeks by g into an illegal p funding scam dating from his time as mayor of Paris, his lawyer confirmed yesterday, According to Jean will be interviewed as an "assist ed witness rather than as an ordinary witness which means that the criminal charges against him remains open.
Chirac's close ally Alain Juppe was convicted in the affair in 2004, earning one-year ban from politics-Agence France- a Presse.