France: At His Corruption Trial, Rachida Dati Pleads Absenteeism in Parliament
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Difficult audience this 22 September for Rachida Dati, who struggled to explain his activities for Renault, paid 300,000 euros a year between 2009 and 2012. The former Minister of Justice denied what she seems to have done and claimed actions that yet nothing attests...
Judged for corruption and influence trafficking, the former MEP persists in denying all the accusations. Asked Monday about notes she sent to the builder suggesting a lobbying activity, the elected one had great difficulty in explaining them.
Rachida Dati was interrogated a second time on Monday 21 September. The former minister is tried in prison for corruption and influence trafficking, suspected of having been paid by Renault-Nissan to lobby for the automotive group in the European Parliament between 2009 and 2013, which his MEP mandate prohibited. Denying the accusations in bloc, she justified her integrity by her absenteeism in the European Chamber.
On the second day of the interrogation of Nicolas Sarkozy's ex-guard of the Seals, the court had extracts of the Euro MPs' code of conduct cast on a giant screen above the bar, whose enlarged text seems to crush the defendant who reads it below. "I have never been in a situation of conflict of interest (...). All my actions, be it my votes or my speeches, have always complied with my group's political commitments", sweeps Rachida Dati, dressed b…
Judged for payments received from Renault-Nissan, the former Minister Rachida Dati contests any hidden lobbying activity on the basis of his low investment in his post as MEP
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