The Ghosn couple settles their accounts and renews their accusations in a book

“Together, always”, by Carole and Carlos Ghosn.

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A little over a year after leaving Japan, Carlos Ghosn, now a refugee in Lebanon, talks with his wife Carole in a book entitled Together always their descent into hell.

Published this Wednesday, the book of more than 300 pages, retraces in detail what the former boss of the Nissan / Renault alliance has experienced since his arrest in November 2018 when his jet descended on the tarmac of the Tokyo airport.

The Ghosn couple also settles their accounts and renews their accusations. 

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In their four-handed book, the couple spares no one.

As a preamble, Carlos Ghosn maintains that he was the victim of a conspiracy.

Accused of embezzlement by Nissan, he wrote: "

It is an ambush organized by Nissan officials and members of the Japanese government

."

Then he accuses of treason some of his close associates at the head of the Nissan

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Renault

alliance

when he had made them rise in the hierarchy.  

A dependent book also with regard to France.

In turn, Carole Ghosn tells how she tried to plead the cause of her husband at the highest level of the State by bringing to the Elysee a letter from her husband, written from his Japanese prison.

Received by Alexis Kholer, then secretary general of the Élysée, he promises her assistance, she believes in it, then seeing nothing coming, understands that France will not budge. 

From that moment on, Carlos Goshn decides to act.

While on bail, he organizes his incredible escape.

Helped by two barbouzes, he left the Osaka airport hidden in a trunk, in December 2019. The book devotes many pages to this leak which will arouse the anger of the Japanese justice but which will lead him to Beirut in Lebanon, his country. native where his wife is waiting for him.

It is from their Lebanese residence, away from Japanese justice, that the couple wrote this book, to wash their honor.   

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