New chapter in the soap opera Ghosn. The former head of Renault-Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, claims to Renault before the courts the payment of his golden retirement, that the French car company had refused to pay him after he resigned in January 2019 from his post when he was in jail Japanese accused of corruption. The manager expected to receive during his retirement about 770,000 euros a year from the French car company .
" My resignation from Renault? It's a farce. I claim my pension rights, as well as all other acquired rights. Everyone knows the circumstances in which I had to leave Renault. I was imprisoned," he said from Lebanon Ghosn in a interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro in full debate in France about pension reform.
Ghosn demanded at the end of December to Renault before the labor court of Boulogne-Billancourt the payment of his compensation for retirement of 250,000 euros that, according to him, corresponds to him, revealed Le Figaro. In February a boldness will take place on this case.
The former Renault manager also plans to demand before the Commercial Court the payment of his pension of 770,000 euros per year that he expected to receive, as well as 380,000 shares depending on the results. According to the AFP agency, these actions could currently be worth 15.5 million euros .
The former Renault boss, who at the end of December 2019 staged a rocambolesque escape to escape from Japanese justice, is confident that the French courts will recognize the bulk of his retirement rights he had negotiated when he was in charge of the car group.
Renault, on the other hand, considers that when resigning from its position, it does not have right to collect that money . After failing to reach an agreement in a friendly way with his former company, Ghosn uses French justice to claim what he considers to be his right after working so many years for Renault, a company he ran between 2005 and 2019.
Ghosn, 65, resigned in January 2019 from his position as chairman of the board of directors and general manager of Renault. At that time, the businessman - who has triple nationality: Brazilian, French and Lebanese - had been imprisoned for two months in a Japanese prison accused of corruption and misappropriation of public property after being arrested in Tokyo in November 2018.
After his resignation, the board of directors of Renault withdrew in January 2019 the bulk of his retirement rights and did not pay most of the variable remuneration that would have corresponded to him for 2018.
The businessman maintains, however now, that he did not resign from his post but asked to retire to allow the normal operation of the company while he was in jail and preparing his defense. And he recalled that he then claimed his right to receive the corresponding retirement.
Ghosn fled Tokyo in late December 2019 and settled in Lebanon after stopping in Turkey thanks to the help of a private security company that secretly took him out of Japan hidden in a box to store musical instruments. A spectacular escape that surprised everyone, as the Japanese police guarded him 24 hours a day.
Before leaving Tokyo, Ghosn was on probation awaiting trial and was prohibited from leaving Japan. His trial was scheduled to begin next April. Lebanon has no extradition treaty with Japan.
The former Renault boss gave a press conference on January 8 in Beirut in which he defended his innocence, criticized the Japanese judicial system and said he was the victim of a plot and political persecution for his intention to further strengthen the alliance between Renault and Nissan.
" I have not fled from justice, but from injustice and political persecution ," said Ghosn, who preferred not to give details about his escape and the people who could help him. The former head of Renault Nissan believes that he was not going to have a fair trial in Japan so he decided to flee.
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