BERLIN (Reuters) - German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Wednesday he had received a French report on emissions levels of Renault (>> Renault) and other carmakers, and that it showed abnormalities similar to those in German investigations.

Carmakers have come under scrutiny by experts as part of a widening clampdown on health-threatening nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution levels in the wake of Volkswagen's (>> Volkswagen AG) diesel emissions test cheating uncovered by U.S. authorities last September.

(Reporting by Markus Wacket; Writing by Paul Carrel)

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