FILE PHOTO - French Finance and Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire speaks to media after a meeting with his Swedish counterpart in Stockholm, Sweden February 4, 2019. Naina Helen Jama/TT News Agency/via REUTERS

PARIS (Reuters) - French carmaker Renault needs to show “total transparency” as it probes its business practices, including a sponsorship deal stuck with the Chateau de Versailles, finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday.

“The audit into Renault has started, it is starting to bring out results, I had personally demanded that audit,” Le Maire added to reporters at a business event in Paris.

Earlier on Thursday, Renault said it was probing the Versailles sponsorship, which included a 50,000 euro ($57,000) personal benefit to its scandal-hit former chairman Carlos Ghosn.