11:30 p.m., April 23, 2022
Renault lawyer Kami Haeri believes on behalf of the car manufacturer that “Carlos Ghosn’s attempt to exonerate himself from any responsibility in the payment of sums to SBA is astonishing when we recall that he took care to keep the relations hidden personal and financial that he maintained with the leaders of SBA for ten years via complex circuits of offshore companies and for astronomical amounts. Here is a CEO of a large company who knowingly hid all this from the internal control bodies, the board of directors, the employees and the shareholders of Renault, and who comes to explain that we should have guessed what was going on.
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Only a meticulous penal investigation, with significant resources, has made it possible to bring all this to light. And we may not know everything. If he thus lied for ten years to Renault, it is for one reason only: he knew that if Renault had learned the truth it would have compromised the continuation of relations with SBA and his maintenance at the head of the group. He concealed and manipulated Renault. »
“It goes without saying that in the light of the elements which have been gradually gathered in the investigation file, adds the lawyer, Renault Group has undertaken a strategic review of its relationship with SBA. »