The former president of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, Carlos Ghosn, has defended this afternoon against the accusations of fraud for which he was arrested on November 19, 2018 in Japan, from where he escaped on November 30 through a Rocambolesco trip that took him to Lebanon. "I have fled from injustice and political persecution," he said.
"I don't come to tell how I escaped, but to defend myself against false accusations and wash my honor," the triple-national tycoon, Brazilian, Lebanese and French, started. He left Japan, where he had been "torn" from his family, "because he had no other option" in the face of "baseless" accusations.
He attacked with strong gestures those he believes responsible for his "ordeal," which Ghosn says are "responsible for Nissan and the Japanese prosecutor." Later he added that "it is these leaders who should be held accountable," since he considers them responsible for Nissan's decline. "My ordeal is also explained because Japan disliked the interference of the French state in the Alliance." Ghosn said there was a "collusion" [a pact to harm a third party] between Nissan and the Japanese prosecutor. "
"I thought I was going to die in Japan. I was interrogated for months for eight hours a day without the presence of my lawyers," Ghosn said. "Every day of my detention I defended my innocence," the tycoon continued, with a high tone throughout the press conference. "My ordeal is the work of a handful of unscrupulous people," he said.
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