Former corporate auditor who secretly investigated Ghosn's fraud in-house appeared as a witness in the trial of former CEO Greg Kelly, who was accused of disclosing the compensation of former chairman Carlos Ghosn of Nissan Motor , Revealed that the investigation was triggered by taking over from his predecessor four years before the arrest of the former chairman.
In the trial of former Nissan representative director Greg Kelly, witnesses of Nissan officials continued to be cross-examined, and one former auditor, Hidetoshi Imazu, who secretly investigated the injustice of former chairman Ghosn, was called by the witnesses. It was.
Former Audit & Supervisory Board Member Imazu was taken over by his predecessor when he became an Audit & Supervisory Board Member in 2014, four years before the former chairmen were arrested. In 2017, he made it clear that he was conducting an investigation, such as visiting a subsidiary in the Netherlands.
After that, from 2018, he began to share information about the investigation with former vice president Hitoshi Kawaguchi and managing executive officer Hari Nada, and five months before his arrest, he visited the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office alone and consulted with the prosecutor. Said.
At this time, the prosecutor asked me to continue the internal investigation and said, "Please treat this issue as confidential. If information leaks to the outside, the evidence may be destroyed, and at that time the district public prosecutor's office will handle it. He testified that he was required to thoroughly manage information.