Nissan Motors ousted chairman Carlos Ghosn will be spending christmas behind bars. It is clear, after a japanese court on Saturday decided to extend his pre-trial detention.
It writes the AFP news agency early on Sunday morning, Danish time.
– today, it has been decided to varetægtsfængsle Ghosn until the 1. January, notify the court in Tokyo.
the 64-year-old Carlos Ghosn was arrested on 19. november together with Greg Kelly, who is a second top executive in Nissan. They are both prosecuted for fraud.
Authorities suspect the two in order to have underreported their milliongager. It had to be done to get cheaper in tax.
The alleged fraud must have been going on from 2011 to 2015.
Ghosn has for years been one of the most significant persons in the global automotive industry as the ceo of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi-alliance.
At the end of november, he was as a result of the case aside as chairman of the board of Nissan Motor. Mitsubishi has done the same.
the Charges against the former chairman of the board is a product of Nissan’s own investigation. After months of bevisindsamling gave the carmaker the case to the japanese authorities in november.
in addition to Ghosn and Kelly is also Nissan Motor been accused of having misinformed the company’s shareholders and the public in the company’s financial statements.