Rachida Dati indicted for her consulting services to Carlos Ghosn
The former Minister of Justice Rachida Dati is indicted in the Renault case.
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Rachida Dati was indicted 5 days ago in the Carlos Ghosn case.
The information was made public only this Tuesday evening July 27.
The former Minister of Justice is suspected of having received large sums of money for activities - still unclear - of advice to the CEO of Renault-Nissan at the time.
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Rachida Dati is indicted for "passive corruption by a person invested with a public elective mandate within an international organization" and "concealment of abuse of power".
Concretely, the judges suspect the current mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris of having received 900,000 euros in fees while she was a lawyer between 2010 and 2012.
His defense pleads the prescription of possible offenses
This sum was paid by the Dutch subsidiary of Renault-Nissan, for consulting activities
with Carlos Ghosn
, boss of the automotive group at the time.
But at the time, Rachida Dati was also a Member of the European Parliament.
Justice therefore seeks to know if such income corresponds to specific activities or if it is a job of convenience which could have masked lobbying activities which are prohibited for MEPs.
For her part, Rachida Dati has always denied any irregularity in these contracts.
His defense team also pleads that the statute of limitations for these possible crimes has been acquired since 2017, the National Financial Prosecutor's Office having only opened the investigation in 2019.
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