In the dock with the charge of corruption, French Minister of Culture Rasida Dati and former CEO of Renault and Nissan, Carlos Gon, will be led.

Investigators decided on Tuesday, July 22, six years after the complaint of a Renault SA shareholder, to refer them to a criminal court on charges of corruption, as a judicial source at Le Monde.

Dati is accused of accepting 900,000 euros between 2010 and 2012 as a fee of a lawyer from a Renault-Nissan subsidiary based in the Netherlands, but without really working for her.

Gon faces several international arrest warrants and is prohibited from leaving Lebanon, where he fled in December 2019 after his departure from Japan, where he was imprisoned.

In their ruling, according to the indictment of the National Prosecutor’s Office of Economic Affairs (PNF) issued in November 2024, the judges decided that Date should appear in court for “passive corruption and influence by a person who holds a public authority” power and confidence violation. ” As for Gon, he will be tried for “abuse of power by a company executive”, “abuse of trust” and “active corruption”.