(Bloomberg) -- Renault SA is pushing Nissan Motor Co. to call a shareholder meeting as soon as possible to discuss the Japanese automaker’s indictment, governance and the French company’s appointees on Nissan’s board, people familiar with the matter said.

Nissan’s indictment last week by the Japanese Public Prosecutor’s office creates "significant risks" to Renault as its largest shareholder and to the stability of both companies’ industrial alliance, Renault Deputy Chief Executive Officer Thierry Bollore wrote to Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa on Friday, the people said.

The letter was also sent to the board of Nissan, the CEO of Daimler AG, which has a small cross-ownership holdings with Nissan and Renault, and some French government officials, according to the people, who asked not to be named because the details aren’t public. A spokesman for Renault declined to comment, and Nissan didn’t respond to a request outside regular business hours.

Nissan’s board is scheduled to meet Monday and the letter asked it to consider calling an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders as promptly as possible, they said. It stressed that a discussion about Renault appointees on the Nissan board and in senior management would be consistent with the companies’ existing agreements.

Tensions in the Franco-Japanese partnership have surfaced since the Nov. 19 arrest of Carlos Ghosn, leaving the alliance without the leader who held the two sides together for decades. Ghosn was indicated in Japan for understating his income after a months-long investigation by Nissan. A preliminary probe by Renault found last week that Ghosn’s compensation at the French carmaker compiled with French law.

--With assistance from Ruth David.

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