Prosecutors told AFP the goal was to find out if these people were "knowing" of flows with the Small Business Administration deemed suspicious, or had "substantiated it". These inflows are estimated at no less than 15 million euros, according to a source close to the investigation. According to this same source, serious or consistent indications make it possible to suspect that Carlos Ghosn ordered bonus payments from Renault to the SBA distributor, "disguised as a certain number of accounting restrictions such as bonuses and stock takeovers", a portion of which was then sent to Front companies affiliated with Carlos Ghosn's entourage.