>One anon mentioned baker/note-taker combos as a possibility.
seeing how that got shit on pretty hard in march you may find that a hard sell now. All for it but that sent the wrong message imo
French finance minister says Renault to bring case against Carlos Ghosn over shady expenses
PARIS/FRANKFURT - The French finance minister said Wednesday that Renault SA — in which the French government holds a 15 percent stake — plans to bring a case against former Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn after identifying €11 million (¥1.3 billion) of questionable expenses.
The prospect of new legal action backed by France marks a new headache for the former Renault CEO, who was also Nissan chairman in the alliance with the Japanese carmaker, after his arrest in Tokyo in November.
“The (French) state will hand over all the elements to the judicial authorities and there will be a complaint,” Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told BFM TV in an interview.
“The state will play its role fully as a Renault shareholder. When the state has a shareholding like it does in Renault, its role is to assure that (corporate) governance works well,” he added.
He said the conclusions of an internal audit carried out by Renault had uncovered “reprehensible” facts and it was now up to the judicial authorities to take the next decision.
The internal audit conducted by Renault and Nissan Motor Co. identified €11 million of questionable expenses at their Dutch subsidiary RNBV linked to Ghosn.
“These findings confirmed the existence of deficiencies within RNBV in terms of financial transparency and procedures for monitoring expenditure,” Renault said in a statement late Tuesday.
It said that the company was looking into legal action over Ghosn’s “extra costs of air travel” and other expenses “as well as exploring recovering from Mr Ghosn gifts made to some non-profit organizations.”
The 65-year-old Ghosn, who maintains his innocence, is awaiting trial in Japan over charges of underreporting his salary for years while at Nissan and using company funds for personal expenses.
Ghosn says the accusations of financial misconduct in Japan are politically driven by enemies at Nissan. Ghosn was credited with leading Renault’s rescue of Nissan from near bankruptcy.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/05/business/corporate-business/french-finance-minister-says-renault-bring-case-carlos-ghosn-shady-expenses/
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