French justice suspects the ex-CEO of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance of having received more than 30 million dollars as a “consultant” for a Renault distributor in Oman. More than 30 million dollars: c is the sum that Carlos Ghosn would have received as a “consultant” for a Renault distributor in Oman, in the Middle East. At the end of April, French justice issued an international arrest warrant against the ex-CEO of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance within the framework of an investigation conducted in Nanterre, in particular for misuse of corporate assets, money laundering and corruption. also made it possible to update a system of ‘retrocommissions’ which had never before been revealed”, underlines this Monday, May 2 an article from Les Echos. In detail, the scheme would be as follows: “performance bonuses” were paid to the company Suhail Bahwan Automobiles (SBA), u n major distributor based in Oman. With the origin of these funds in the accounts of the manufacturers Renault and Nissan, “a line of credit normally used, in each of the groups, for exceptional expenses, not budgeted” and called “the reserve of the CEO”, specifies the economic daily. Nissan would thus have paid nearly 32 million dollars to SBA and Renault 12.5 million euros. With a retrocommission system which would have directly benefited Carlos Ghosn: in particular via “Suhail Bahwan, the founder of SBA whom since 1999” and who “would have first paid 25 million euros in 2009 (…) in the form of a ‘loan’ granted to Rita Ghosn, his wife at the time”. A sum that the leader would have admitted to having received well without any reimbursement made, during his hearing last year in Lebanon, according to information from Les Echos. SBA would also have paid 7.5 million additional dollars to Carlos Ghosn as as “consultant in the automotive sector”.