The Minister of Culture Rachida Dati sues the president of Renault

The former Minister of Justice is indicted for corruption and passive influence peddling by a person invested with a public elective mandate since July 2021, in the investigation into contracts entered into by a subsidiary of Renault-Nissan.

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Minister of Culture Rachida Dati at the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris, January 29, 2024. (XOSE BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS / AFP)

The Minister of Culture Rachida Dati has summoned the chairman of the board of directors of Renault, Jean-Dominique Senard, to court for obstructing justice and failing to testify in favor of an innocent person, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office announced at the ‘AFP, confirming information from New Obs.

Rachida Dati seized the Nanterre criminal court via the so-called procedure of “direct quote” in order to have Jean-Dominique Senard appear on May 23. In this act, cited by The New Obsthe minister’s lawyer accuses the president of Renault of having “concealed and concealed from the French justice system essential documents likely to exonerate Madame Rachida Dati of the offenses with which she is accused”.

Nicolas Sarkozy’s former Minister of Justice is indicted for corruption and passive influence peddling by a person invested with a public elective mandate since July 2021, in the investigation into contracts entered into by a subsidiary of Renault- Nissan when Carlos Ghosn was CEO. In the quote, the advice of the Minister of Culture states that “the goal sought by Jean-Dominique Senard was to overwhelm Carlos Ghosn in a general desire to denigrate and criticize the choices of his predecessor”with “a clear desire for secrecy, intended to artificially burden Madame Rachida Dati in order to reach Carlos Ghosn”.


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