Nanterre (AFP)

The procedure instituted by the ex-boss of Renault Carlos Ghosn, which claims 250,000 euros as provisional retirement benefit, must be examined on February 21 by the industrial tribunal of Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts- de-Seine), we learned Tuesday from a judicial source.

The request will be examined in summary procedure, an emergency procedure.

The former boss of Renault, installed in Lebanon after fleeing Japan where he is prosecuted for embezzlement, has engaged in a legal battle against the car manufacturer to claim in total nearly 800,000 euros in annual pension and some 15 million euros in actions.

The 65-year-old executive, forced to retire because of his legal setbacks, believes that his rights have been violated by Renault. In addition to the procedure before the industrial tribunal, he is preparing to confront the company before a commercial court.

Believing that Carlos Ghosn had resigned from his post on January 23, 2019 after his imprisonment in Japan for various alleged embezzlements, Renault announced last year that the Franco-Lebanese-Brazilian businessman had lost his rights to a "retirement -chapeau "with a gross amount of 774,774 euros per year.

The board of directors of the diamond group had also estimated that the former CEO had lost his rights to the shares that had been allocated to him between 2015 and 2018 as a reward for the constructor's good performance.

Considered to have resigned, Mr. Ghosn thus lost 380,000 shares, the value of which is estimated at around 15.5 million euros at the current Renault share price.

The former boss of the Renault-Nissan alliance assures him that he left the company to claim his retirement rights when he was effectively prevented from leading the group.

On January 9, the Lebanese justice system prohibited him from leaving the country following a request for the arrest of Interpol. In Japan, Mr. Ghosn is the subject of four charges: two for deferred income not declared to the stock exchange authorities by Nissan and two others for aggravated breach of trust.

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