Overview

• Correctional hearings are scheduled over six afternoons on September 16, 17, 21, 23, 24 and 28, 2026 at the Tribunal de Paris.
• Both defendants contest the charges stemming from a probe opened in 2019 into alleged corruption and influence‑peddling.
• Investigating judges say Dati received €900,000 from Renault‑Nissan affiliate RNBV between 2010 and 2012 for work they characterize as lobbying incompatible with her MEP mandate and legal practice.
• Renault has joined the case as a civil party, and Dati’s lawyers plan to file motions to nullify parts of the proceedings at the opening of the trial.
• Carlos Ghosn remains under an international arrest warrant issued in April 2023 and resides in Lebanon after leaving Japan in 2019; Dati also faces a separate inquiry over a possible non‑declaration of luxury jewelry to the HATVP.