Ghosn investigation: for Rachida Dati, the Interior is "perhaps" behind his questioning

Ex-Minister Rachida Dati pleaded innocence on Friday following an article in

about the investigation into his advice to Carlos Ghosn, saying that the Interior Ministry was "perhaps to be "the provider of" information "on a daily basis.

In addition to its investigation into suspicions of abuse of social assets targeting the former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, the French justice is interested in contracts signed by a Dutch subsidiary of Renault-Nissan and the million euros that Rachida Dati and the criminologist Alain Bauer touched each one but of which no trace was found.

"Maneuvers" 

Facts on which

returned Thursday in a long investigation, according to which investigators got hold of Renault's headquarters on a cover stamped "RD".

In this article, "all the elements that are written are false", assured Rachida Dati Friday on BFMTV and RMC, denouncing "maneuvers" and an attempt to "silence" her.

Asked to know who might have had an interest in seeing this article published, the former MEP and current LR mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris noted that "when you are a minister, sensitive matters rise".

So it would come from the Ministry of the Interior?

"Perhaps".

"Normally - I am convinced he will - the prosecutor should open an investigation into this article. They did it for others, I will see if they will do it for me," she said. for follow-up.

But "I say to those who gave the information: you are not going to hinder my ambitions, my statements, or the fact of telling the truths".