Today, in Beirut after an astonishing escape from Japan, Ghosn held court for nearly two hours in front of more than 200 journalists, angry and defiant at times, sober and thoughtful at others.
"It is impossible to express," he said,"the depth of my deprivation [while held ] in solitary confinement in Tokyo."
After the turn of the century, Ghosn led a turnaround at Nissan, and the company was often hailed in the press as a symbol of a new, open Japan, a country in which a gaijin could now run one of its most high profile companies. In truth, according to several sources, including a former member of the company's board of directors, there were executives within NIssan and politicians outside of it who chafed at the fact.
According to Ghosn's friends and advisers, Hiroto Saikawa, then Ghosn's deputy, and other longtime NIssan executives had already felt that the company's importance to the global"alliance" Ghosn had put together--including companies in China, Russia, eastern Europe, as well as Mitsubishi Motors in Japan--was dwindling. They were not wrong. Ghosn for years had toyed with the idea of setting up a"central strategic holding company" to manage the entire alliance.
By 2018, sources close to Ghosn claim, Japanese executives went to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and said they could manage the company without Ghosn. They then began to try to build a fraud case against him, rooted in the claim that he under-reported his income to Japanese authorities.
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