France, Sept. 30 -- French financial prosecutors announced Monday that Rachida Dati, the culture minister and leading centre-right candidate for Paris mayor, is set to face trial in September 2026 over suspected corruption.

Dati,is accused of accepting €900,000 in lawyer's fees between 2010 and 2012 from a Netherlands-based subsidiary of Renault-Nissan, without actually working for them, while she was an MEP from 2009 to 2019.

The judges who investigated the case believe that Dati's activity in the European Parliament "amounted to lobbying", which "appears incompatible both with her mandate and with her profession as a lawyer".

Ghosn, the former chairman and chief executive of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, was arrested ...