The scandal hit former top executive of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, did not have to be a free man for long.
on the Night of Thursday local time was brasilianskfødte businessman again arrested by the japanese authorities on the basis of new allegations of tax fraud during his time as boss of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Motors.
The typing of several international news agencies including AFP.
He was last year arrested in Japan on charges of skattefusk. Officially, he is charged with three separate conditions.
At the beginning of march, he chose to pay a bail of one billion yen, equivalent to almost 59 million dollars.
After the arrest Thursday Ghosn, in a statement called the arrest and the new charges of fraud for “outrageous and arbitrary”.
– This arrest is yet another attempt by the people at Nissan to make me silent by misleading the prosecutors. Why arrest me, if not to break me, asks 65-year-old Ghosn in the opinion.
He reached to sit in prison for more than 100 days, before he got the opportunity to pay bail.
– I will not let me crack, ” he concludes.
The state prosecutor in the case is suspect according to the japanese media Ghosn to use the 32 million dollar of Nissan’s funds as the illegal payment to a distributor in Oman.
Some of the money was allegedly spent on a luxury yacht to Ghosn and his family.
And it is on top of the old charges that among other things goes on the previous topchefs depreciation of personal cover investment losses as a loss for the automotive group.
Nissan began after the Ghosns arrest a major internal investigation, which has uncovered “substantial evidence of blatantly unethical behaviour”.
the Company has subsequently bedyret that you want to make significant changes in the way top management uses the company’s funds.
Carlos Ghosn has from the start declared themselves innocent of all charges.
