Nov 19, 2021 · Ghosn's arrest by Tokyo prosecutors on Nov. 19, 2018, stunned the business world, shock that was compounded just over a year later when the executive escaped from Japan while out on bail. In the ...
Jan 16, 2020 · Hong Kong (CNN Business) Carlos Ghosn's lawyer has resigned following his client's brazen escape to Lebanon. Junichiro Hironaka and seven other members of the former Nissan chief's Japanese ...
Nov 28, 2018 · By bringing on the 63-year-old Motonari Otsuru, Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn is getting someone steeped in the tactics of the prosecutors now weighing whether to charge him with financial crimes.
Feb 07, 2022 · Also on the cc list was Jimmy Dawson, a lawyer in Nissan’s legal department, who had traveled to Beirut and participated in the November 19, 2018, raid on Ghosn’s residence there. As for the intent of these and other exchanges we’ve reviewed, it would be difficult to find otherwise than that it was to try to find ways to prevent turning over exculpatory evidence to …
Jan 04, 2020 · Takano, the main lawyer on Ghosn's team in charge of his bail, acknowledged that most suspects would not be able to pull off an escape like Ghosn's.
Carlos Ghosn | |
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Ghosn in 2010 | |
Born | 9 March 1954 Porto Velho, RondĂ´nia, Brazil |
Nationality | French–Lebanese–Brazilian |
Alma mater | École Polytechnique (1974) École des mines (1978) |
Ghosn also holds French and Lebanese nationality. As of January 2020, he is an internationally wanted fugitive. Ghosn was the CEO of Michelin North America, chairman and CEO of Renault, chairman of AvtoVAZ, chairman and CEO of Nissan, and chairman of Mitsubishi Motors.
He was arrested at Tokyo International Airport on 19 November 2018, on allegations of under-reporting his salary and gross misuse of company assets.
However, they ultimately found the situation untenable and Ghosn was made to retire as Chairman and CEO of Renault on 24 January 2019. While out on bail granted in early March, Ghosn was re-arrested in Tokyo on 4 April 2019, over new charges of misappropriations of Nissan funds.
Ghosn's grandfather was Bichara Ghosn, a Maronite Catholic who emigrated from Ajaltoun, French Mandate Lebanon to Brazil at the age of 13, eventually settling in remote Guaporé, Rondônia, near the border between Brazil and Bolivia. Bichara Ghosn was an entrepreneur and eventually headed several companies, in businesses including the rubber trade, the sale and purchase of agricultural products, and aviation. His son Jorge Ghosn married Rose Jazzar, a Nigerian -born Lebanese woman whose family came from Miziara in Lebanon then went to Brazil, where they settled in Porto Velho, the state capital of Rondônia, and had four children.
Carlos' father, Jorge Ghosn (died 2006) was a diamond trader and worked in the airline industry. Jorge was convicted of murdering a priest in Sawfar, Lebanon in 1960. Jorge fled to Brazil in 1975 at the outbreak of Lebanese Civil War. Carlos Ghosn was born on 9 March 1954, in Porto Velho.
Ghosn's Nissan Revival Plan called for cutting 21,000 Nissan jobs (14% of total workforce), mostly in Japan; shutting five Japanese plants; reducing the number of suppliers and shareholdings; and auctioning off prized assets such as Nissan's aerospace unit.
Carlos Ghosn at Nissan's Honmoku Wharf, a logistics hub about 10 km southeast of Nissan's global headquarters in Yokohama, July 2011. In 2007, Ghosn led the Renault–Nissan Alliance into the mass-market zero-emission electric car market in a major way, and committed €4 billion (more than $5 billion) to the effort.
Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor Co., center , sits in a vehicle as he leaves his lawyer's office in Tokyo, Japan, on March 6, 2019. A uto industry experts say that Carlos Ghosn has a long history of beating the odds. During his tenure as the head of Nissan, he managed to step inside a company entrenched in the insular world ...
In November of 2018, Nissan announced that an internal investigation into Ghosn and another executive found Ghosn’s compensation had been underreported. There was also evidence that Ghosn committed other misconduct, including personal use of company assets, the investigation found.
After fleeing the country, he said in a statement that he left because he faced “injustice and political persecution ,” according to the Associated Press. Ghosn also appears to have broken Japanese law by jumping his bail and traveling to Lebanon.
Extradition can be especially unlikely if officials are concerned that a prosecution may be politically motivated — as Ghosn alleges is the case in Japan. In an interview with the Associated Press, Lebanese Justice Minister Albert Serhan seemingly cast doubt on whether Lebanon would return Ghosn to Japan.