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En illustration från domstolsförhöret. (JIJI PRESS / JIJI PRESS)

Ghosn bedyrar oskuld i offentligt framträdande

Carlos Ghosn bedyrade sin oskuld då han i en domstol i Tokyo gjorde sitt första offentliga framträdande sedan han greps i november.

Anklagelserna gäller bland annat att han har underrapporterat sin ersättning från Nissan. Specifikt gäller det att Nissan gott i god för Ghosns valutakontrakt under finanskrisen, att Nissan har gjort otillbörliga betalningar till en saudisk affärsman och att han tecknat hemliga avtal som berättigar honom till ersättning efter att han slutat.

Ghosn, som tappat 10 kilo sedan han greps, anser sig inte bara oskyldig utan även otillbörligen fängslad. Domaren uppgav att flyktrisken och risken för att Ghosn förstör bevis är orsaken till att han sitter fängslad. Han är ännu inte åtalad för något brott.

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Carlos Ghosn
Wikipedia (en)
Carlos Ghosn, KBE (; born March 9, 1954) is a Brazilian-born businessman who also has French and Lebanese nationality. Ghosn has served as the CEO of Michelin North America, chairman and CEO of Renault, chairman of AvtoVAZ, chairman and former CEO of Nissan, and chairman of Mitsubishi Motors. Ghosn was also chairman and CEO of the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance, a strategic partnership between those automotive manufacturers through a complex cross-shareholding agreement. The venture has held an approximately 10% market share since 2010, and as of 2017 was reckoned to be the third largest automobile group worldwide.In 1996, Renault's CEO Louis Schweitzer hired Ghosn as his deputy and charged him with the task of turning the company around from near bankruptcy. Ghosn elaborated a plan to cut costs for the period 1998–2000, reducing the workforce, revising production processes, standardising vehicle parts and pushing the launch of new models. The company also undertook organisational changes, introducing a lean production system with delegate responsibilities inspired by Japanese systems (the "Renault Production Way"), reforming work methods and centralising research and development at its Technocentre to reduce vehicle conception costs while accelerating such conception. Ghosn became known as "Le Cost Killer". In the early 2000s, for orchestrating one of the auto industry's most aggressive downsizing campaigns and spearheading the turnaround of Nissan from its near bankruptcy in 1999, he earned the nickname "Mr. Fix It".Following the Nissan financial turnaround, in 2002 Fortune awarded him Asia Businessman of the Year. In 2003 Fortune identified him as one of the 10 most powerful people in business outside the U.S., and its Asian edition voted him Man of the Year. Surveys jointly published by the Financial Times and PricewaterhouseCoopers named him the fourth most respected business leader in 2003, and the third most respected business leader in 2004 and in 2005. He quickly achieved celebrity status in Japan and in the business world, and his life has been chronicled in a Japanese manga comic book.Ghosn stepped down as CEO of Nissan on April 1, 2017, while remaining chairman of the company. He was arrested at Haneda Airport on 19 November 2018, for under-reporting his earnings and misuse of company assets. On November 22, 2018, the company's board made a unanimous decision to dismiss Ghosn as Nissan's chairman, followed by Mitsubishi Motors' board on November 26, 2018.
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