Overview
- The Parquet national financier delivered its réquisitions on Monday, Sept. 28, asking the court to convict Rachida Dati and Carlos Ghosn and to impose penalties as the trial moved into closing submissions and reserved judgment.
- The PNF accuses the two of a corruption pact between 2009 and 2013 in which Dati, then an MEP, allegedly lobbied at the European Parliament for Renault‑Nissan in return for a €900,000 fee agreement.
- Carlos Ghosn is being tried in his absence because he has lived in Lebanon since late 2019 and is subject to French arrest warrants, a fact repeatedly highlighted by prosecutors and Renault's legal team.
- Rachida Dati denies wrongdoing, says she performed lawful legal work under a signed contract, and is seeking reinstatement to the magistrature while her lawyers asked the court for acquittal.
- Renault is a civil party in the case and has pointed to a separate, larger investigation opened in Nanterre; if convicted Dati faces fines equal to half the sum received, up to ten years in prison, and possible ineligibility or loss of public posts.