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Mike Oxlong wrote:The "legal" system here is so much like China as to be ... bloody well fucked.
After 107 days behind bars, starting with his sudden detention at Tokyo’s Haneda airport when he was accused of engaging in financial misconduct, the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday granted Ghosn bail. The court rejected a last-ditch effort by prosecutors to reverse its decision to release Ghosn on bail, paving the way for him to be released as soon as Wednesday. He is expected to be released once a bond of ¥1 billion is paid.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:And now that his detention and the "outrage" about it is over, they will likely try to keep a lid on any publicity about the case so that they can let him go quietly eventually. Wonder, if that will work.
Mike Oxlong wrote:Yeah, did you see the circus of his release? Got him all dolled up like he's Al Capone and Hannibal Lector's lovechild.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/201903 ... 91000.html
from a Peter McGILL† post on japanforum.nbr.org
The Financial Times has published a revealing article about Japanese government backing for Nissan in resisting Carlos Ghosn’s plan to merge with Renault. Nissan had “solid support” of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide, the paper quotes unidentified people with ‘knowledge of the discussions’ as asserting.
‘Even as they were briefing Mr Ghosn on the Japanese government’s stance, his lieutenants were simultaneously mounting the secret investigation that would lead to his downfall,’ according to the FT. Information in the report came from ‘documents seen by the Financial Times, as well as through interviews with officials in Paris and Tokyo and people close to both Nissan’s top management and Mr Ghosn,’ the former chief executive of Renault and chairman of Nissan who has been languishing in Japanese jail since late last year.
Renault owns 43 per cent of Nissan, while the French state has 15 per cent of Renault, with double voting rights.
In early April 2018, a ‘senior official’ of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) sent a letter to his French counterpart ‘expressing concern about media reports on plans for a full merger’ of the two carmakers. ‘Mr Ghosn demanded to know what Meti hoped to achieve with its intervention. Hitoshi Kawaguchi, Nissan’s executive in charge of government relations, disclosed that the company had asked Meti for support “to put a brake on the French state”, according to the FT.
Senior executives at Nissan feared a full merger could lead to plant closures and job losses, the paper said.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:Renault is still the owner of Nissan. In that respect, nothing has changed. If your dog bites you, you're still the master and he is the dog.
A non-Japanese Nissan executive close to Ghosn and a former chief of the automaker’s secretaries’ office, who is Japanese, started providing information about Ghosn’s alleged wrongdoing during the in-house investigation.
During the internal probe, the executives hinted at their involvement in Ghosn’s alleged underreporting of his executive pay and fraudulent purchases of overseas real estate using company funds.
The executives told in-house investigators that they would disclose further details to the prosecutors if they could secure a plea deal, the sources said.
In plea negotiations, the prosecutors agreed not to indict the executives in exchange for their cooperation in the investigation.
Ghosn was released on bail on Wednesday after 108 days in detention. He was indicted for the underreporting of his income.
The sources said the plea deals also covered Ghosn’s allegedly fraudulent purchases of overseas real estate. But the prosecutors have yet to make a case against the matter due to a lack of evidence, they said.
bail set at $1bn (£760m)
matsuki wrote:And beyond the boardroom, lawyers could take on the courtroom by arguing that Ghosn’s monthslong detention is arbitrary, Muraoka said. “The world needs to know that our criminal justice system is unfair.”
canman wrote:Now that he has been re-arrested does he get his bail money back?
And what it up with confiscating his wife's passport and cellphone? She hasn't been charged with anything, if I were her I'd be lawyering up right about now.
The FT said prosecutors had confiscated his wife’s Lebanese passport in a dawn raid on their apartment in central Tokyo on Thursday morning, but did not discover her U.S. passport.
“I’m all alone here. It’s traumatising what happened,” she was quoted as saying while awaiting her flight.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:The perks of dual nationality. J-prosecuters would never think of that
canman wrote:There is no way that he will ever get a fair trial here
Grumpy Gramps wrote:And also not to forget what kind of people choose to become prosecuters. Sado-/psycho-/sociopaths are more likely than Mother Teresas imo.
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