Carlos Ghosn claims Nissan for US$1 billion in damages

Former CEO of the Renault-Nissan alliance, carlos ghosnfiled an appeal before the Lebanese courts against the Japanese group, to demand US$ 1,000 million in damages, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday.

ghosn He was arrested at the end of 2018 in Japan where he was to be tried for alleged financial embezzlement when he directed the Japanese group.

The former executive, of Lebanese, French and Brazilian nationality, currently resides in Lebanon, where he settled after leading a spectacular escape at the end of 2019.

According to the judicial source, ghosn filed an appeal in May with the Lebanese Court of Cassation against Nissan and several of its executives. For the entrepreneur, they “fabricated the charges against him in Japan, which led to his arrest and legal action against him.”

ghosn claims “US$1 billion compensation”. The hearing date was set for mid-September, according to the judicial source.

The group nissan, contacted by AFP, declined to comment and said he heard about the appeal from the press. Ghosn’s lawyer in Lebanon did not respond to inquiries.

ghosnwho was already the subject of an Interpol arrest warrant at the request of Tokyo, also has a second international arrest warrant since April 2022, required by the French justice, in the framework of an investigation for abuse of social assets, laundering and corruption.

“They orchestrated the arrest”

According to EFE sources, who requested anonymity, the people who entered the tycoon’s Beiruti house in November 2018 “were Nissan employees“and they did not belong to any security or judicial body in Lebanon, the country from which ghosn He is also a citizen of France and Brazil.

During the home invasion in the Lebanese capital, carried out coinciding with his arrest in Japan, the assailants “they stole documents that were sent to the Japanese prosecutor”, they indicated.

“The accusations that are in the lawsuit are falsification of evidence, trespassing, defamation and violation of professional secrecy, among others.”added the source.

Ghosn, a fugitive from justice in Japan, is accused of concealing from the Japanese authorities a series of compensation agreements agreed with nissan engine between 2011 and 2018 to be paid after leaving the company for a value of 9,100 million yen or about 73 million euros.

Considering that he was not going to receive a fair trial in Japanese territory, the former president of the automobile giant starred in a spectacular escape to Lebanon in 2019 and has since resided in the Mediterranean country.

Although France also requires him for another legal process for alleged financial irregularities, the Lebanese authorities are not expected to extradite him. ghosn to neither of the two countries.

With information from AFP and EFE