The decision of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) had been awaited for months. In a press release this Friday, November 15, he announced that a dismissal indictment had been signed on Wednesday for Rachida Dati and Carlos Ghosn, the former CEO of Renault-Nissan on the run in Lebanon. For the prosecuting authority, the Minister of Culture should be judged for “concealment of abuse of power and breach of trust” as well as for “passive corruption and influence peddling by person vested with a public elective mandate within an international organization (in this case the European Parliament)”. Regarding the former all-powerful boss of Renault-Nissan, the public prosecutor is calling for a trial for “abuse of powers by company director”, “abuse of trust” et “active corruption and influence peddling”. But it is the investigating judges who will decide in the end.
Justice is wondering whether the then MEP had not been paid 900,000 euros by the automobile group, between 2010 and 2012, to carry out lobbying while she was an MEP – which is formally prohibited for parliamentarians.
The case started following the fall of Carlos Ghosn, then all-powerful tycoon of Renault-Nissan, in November 2018, and thanks to the complaint of a shareholder of the Franco-Japanese automobile group. Dati always explained that she had been asked to do work as a lawyer.
Alain Bauer, security expert, was an assisted witness. The PNF requests a dismissal of the charges concerning the contracts concluded between the diamond firm and its consulting company.
More information to come.
Source: www.liberation.fr
