Carlos Ghosn, the former CEO of the Renault-Nissan automotive alliance, has asked to delay his upcoming corruption trial in France, according to reports from BFMTV and AFP. Ghosn, who is currently under house arrest in Beirut, Lebanon, submitted a six-page letter on August 11, explaining that he wants to correct a misunderstanding about his participation in the trial. He emphasized that he is not trying to avoid French justice and is ready to take part, but he raised concerns about the summons process and his current inability to travel due to an active arrest warrant and an Interpol red notice. Ghosn was summoned on July 13 by the Consulate General of Beirut to meet and was given a notice to appear in Paris on September 16. He argued that the summons should have been delivered to him at least two months and ten days before the trial, meaning by July 6. He claimed that the short notice has left him without access to the legal file and unable to properly prepare his defense or organize his legal representation for the hearing. Ghosn and Rachida Dati, a former French minister and lawyer, are scheduled to appear in Paris from September 16 to 28 on charges of corruption and influence peddling. The charges relate to a 900,000-euro payment made by the Renault-Nissan alliance between 2009 and 2013 to the former Minister of Justice. At the time, Rachida Dati was a lawyer and signed a contract in 2009 for a mission to expand Renault’s brand in the Middle East and North Africa. However, the court questions whether she actually worked on this mission and suspects she may have lobbied in the European Parliament in exchange for the payment. Both Ghosn and Dati have denied the allegations from the start of the case and face a potential ten-year prison sentence if found guilty. Rachida Dati’s lawyers, Olivier Pardo and Olivier Baratelli, stated that she intends to be heard starting September 16 and will argue that she was solely a lawyer for the Renault-Nissan RNBV alliance. They also claim that the suspicions of influence peddling in the European Parliament are baseless.