PARIS: Former French Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac has been charged with a count of lying to the government in addition to his tax fraud charges, a judicial source said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila).

Cahuzac, whose resignation in disgrace in March rocked President Francois Hollande’s Socialist government, met on Wednesday with magistrates investigating charges laid after he admitted to having secret foreign bank accounts.

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