Ex-car Manager Carlos Ghosn comes to bail from custody

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He makes for months of headlines: Ex-Nissan boss Ghosn is accused of embezzlement of funds. Now he comes a second Time out of prison – but only under strict conditions.

In Japan, prisoners, Ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn came on bail. He had paid 500 million Yen (about four million euros), according to the district court in Tokyo. It is already the second Time that Ghosn is allowed to leave the prison. The former top Executive was arrested in November in Japan. After approximately 100 days in custody, he was released at the beginning of March with a Deposit. At the time, he paid nine million dollars. Only a month later, he was arrested, however, due to further allegations again.

At the time of his first release on bail had to hold Ghosn to strict guidelines. To him a special property with a surveillance camera has been assigned at the entrance and he was allowed to use mobile phones and the Internet only under certain conditions. The new release is subject to similar requirements, said a court spokesman, also he is not allowed to leave the country.

The re-arrest in the beginning of April had triggered criticism in Japan. The lawyers of Ghosn consider them as inhumane. Ghosn is suffering from chronic kidney failure, the treatment had been interrupted by imprisonment.

Carlos Ghosn (center) at the time of its first release in March

Corporate funds used for private purposes

The once-mighty car Manager is placed in Japan, a variety of financial crimes to support a load. Recently, the Prosecutor’s office had submitted a new indictment: Ghosn is said to have transferred between end of 2015 and mid-2018, a total of 15 million dollars (13.4 million euros) to Nissan-funds to a company in the Middle East.

He is to the diversion of five million dollars for private purposes, a luxury yacht finances and investments in a firm of his son in the United States have made. The investigators accuse Ghosn also have, for years, much to low income at Nissan and personal losses on the Japanese car maker to transfer declared.

Carlos Ghosn, in his first hearing before the court

The former flagship Manager, which also led for many years the French car maker Renault, denies all the allegations and sees itself as the victim of a conspiracy. Nissan have stood before a merger, I didn’t want his arrest to prevent it.

The case has brought the justice system of Japan, the international focus. It is referred to by critics as “hostage justice”, since it allows the use of long sentences of detention, and relies very heavily on the confessions of Suspects.

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