Japanese court will not let Carlos Ghosn attend board meeting
The ousted Nissan CEO was hoping for his first face-off with his colleagues since his arrest
Tokyo — A Tokyo court on Monday denied ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn’s request to attend a board meeting this week, broadcaster NHK reported, blocking what would have been a dramatic face-off with the colleagues he has accused of fomenting a coup. Ghosn, released last week on a $9m bail after spending more than 100 days in detention, had applied to the Tokyo district court for permission to attend Tuesday’s board meeting, as per bail conditions, his lawyer Junichiro Hironaka told reporters earlier. Further details of the reported denial were not immediately available. Hironaka was scheduled to hold another briefing for reporters later on Monday. Attendance would have offered Ghosn the first opportunity to speak with colleagues since his arrest in November. He faces charges of under-reporting his salary by about $82m over nearly a decade — charges he has called “meritless”.
The board meeting coincides with a plan by Nissan and alliance partners Renault and Mitsubishi to set u...
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