Tokyo — Nissan Motor will go bankrupt within two to three years, Carlos Ghosn told a defence attorney during more than 10 hours of interviews before the executive skipped bail and left Japan.

The former chair and CEO of Nissan and Renault made the prediction in 2019 in a series of conversations about his arrest and prosecution, said Nobuo Gohara, a former prosecutor who also is a vocal critic of Japan’s justice system...

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