The Carlos Ghosn case shines a light into the dark corners of Japanese justice | Jeff Kingston
The former Nissan boss is right to point the finger at a legal system that the UN has described as ‘medieval’
In a long and detailed press conference on Wednesday, Carlos Ghosn – former head of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, who made a dramatic escape from his house arrest in Japan last month – came out with guns blazing.
Speaking in Beirut, he alleged that former Nissan colleagues and prosecutors were co-conspirators in a plot to oust him in order to prevent a closer merger with Renault. Ghosn denied the allegations
