BEIRUT Ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has answered hundreds of questions by French investigators over the past week in Beirut and was “happy and satisfied” to have had the opportunity to explain himself over accusations of financial misconduct, his lawyers said Friday. The four and a half days of questioning marked the first opportunity for…
Former Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in Dbayeh, north of Beirut, on May 25. (AP Photo)
BEIRUT Ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has answered hundreds of questions by French investigators over the past week in Beirut and was “happy and satisfied” to have had the opportunity to explain himself over accusations of financial misconduct, his lawyers said Friday.
The four and a half days of questioning marked the first opportunity for Ghosn, a French national, to defend himself against the French allegations including spending on lavish parties and private planes since his 2018 bombshell arrest in Japan and escape to Lebanon a year later.
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 29, 2020 Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn attends a press conference with the President of Lebanon’s University of Kaslik (USEK), in the northern city of Jounieh. – The visit planned to Lebanon by a French judicial security mission to question former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has been postponed. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP) A week-long grilling of former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn in Lebanon by French investigators was the first “fair” treatment he received since his arrest in Japan, his lawyers said Friday. “We consider that the whole process that happened here was fair,” Jean Tamalet, one of Ghosn’s lawyers, said at the end of a five-day-long interrogation process at Lebanon’s Court of Cassation.
Ghosn happy and satisfied after grilling by French investigators
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Beirut Ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has answered hundreds of questions by French investigators over the past week in Beirut and was “happy and satisfied” to have had the opportunity to explain himself over accusations of financial misconduct, his lawyers said Friday.
The four and a half days of questioning marked the first opportunity for Ghosn, a French national, to defend himself against the French allegations including spending on lavish parties and private planes since his 2018 bombshell arrest in Japan and escape to Lebanon a year later.
Ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has answered hundreds of questions by French investigators over the past week in Beirut and is “happy and satisfied” to have had the opportunity to explain himself over accusations of financial misconduct, his lawyers said.
The four-and-a-half days of questioning marked the first opportunity for Ghosn, a French national, to defend himself against the French allegations – including spending on lavish parties and private planes – since his 2018 bombshell arrest in Japan and escape to Lebanon a year later.
However, as Ghosn was being interrogated outside of French soil, it was unclear how he could, if at all, be handed down preliminary charges. His lawyers said they will now seek the right to ask for witnesses and expert evidence in the French investigation.