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PARIS (Reuters) – A Renault (RENA.PA) section trainer was put low investigation on distrustfulness of humbug on Sunday, an official at the town prosecutor's duty said, as a housing of suspected industrialized espionage at the manufacturer continues to unravel.

Dominique Gevrey, condemned into personnel safekeeping on weekday and questioned over the weekend by France's DCRI husbandly intelligence agency, was settled in confinement as requested by the prosecutor.

Gevrey and a second section manager, Marc Tixador, were believed to be the only people who knew the indistinguishability of the mortal on whose aggregation Renault supported its spy probe, the carmaker's lawyer, Jean Reinhart, said this week.

Tixador and Renault's section head, who were also held for questioning over the weekend, were released early on Sunday.

"No charges hit been filed against them," a personnel maker said.

Renault fired three executives and lodged a jural complaint in January over suspected spying at its automobile vehicle aggregation amid fears that aggregation was leaked to a foreign power, but the manufacturer has since admitted it haw hit been tricked.

Key to the espionage investigation has been a enquiry into the doable existence of slope accounts in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, the final results of which were due around March 20.

The fired executives hit every denied some evilness and are attractive jural action against Renault.

If no grounds of slope accounts is found, a board meeting could apace be called, a maker close to Renault told Reuters.

Chief Operating Officer Apostle Pelata hinted his own employ haw be at risk if the housing proves unfounded when he said the consort would accept every the consequences "up to the highest take of the company, that is to feature up to myself."

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde also said early this month that the carmaker, which is 15 proportionality state-owned, staleness grappling "all the consequences."

(Reporting by Gerard Bon; Writing by saint Regan; redaction by Gunna Dickson)

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