The Minister of Culture will have to appear before the criminal court.
The National Financial Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday requested a trial before the criminal court in particular for corruption and influence peddling against the Minister of Culture Rachida Dati and the former boss of the Renault-Nissan automobile group, Carlos Ghosn, the public prosecutor said this Friday.
In this judicial investigation, open since 2019, the former Minister of Justice and ex-mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris had been under investigation since July 2021 for corruption and passive influence peddling by a person invested with a public elective mandate.
Lobbying activity
She is suspected of having received 900,000 euros from RNBV, a subsidiary of the Renault-Nissan alliance, without compensation for real work, between 2010 and 2012, while she was a lawyer and MEP (2009- 2019). The investigations also sought to determine whether this fee agreement could have been used to hide lobbying activity in the European Parliament, prohibited to any elected official.
In this case, Carlos Ghosn, who lives in Lebanon, has been the subject of an international arrest warrant since April 2023. The former automobile magnate and the Minister of Culture dispute the accusations.
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