Renault-Nissan auto alliance architect Carlos Ghosn has been fighting multiple investigations since fleeing Lebanon from Japan in late 2019 and has said he hopes to clear his name in financial misconduct cases against him.
A Swiss court has rejected an Arab businessman’s appeal seeking to prevent Japanese prosecutors from obtaining bank account details to investigate fugitive former car executive Carlos Ghosn, a ruling issued on Friday showed .
Ghosn, the architect of the Renault-Nissan auto alliance, has been fighting multiple investigations since fleeing Lebanon from Japan in late 2019, and has said he hopes to clear his name in financial misconduct cases against him.
Ghosn was the chairman of both Nissan and Mitsubishi and was the chief executive officer of Renault when he was arrested in Japan in 2018 for undercutting his salary and using company funds for personal use. He has denied wrongdoing.
Japanese prosecutors sought legal assistance from Switzerland to retrieve documents from bank accounts owned by an associate of Ghosn. Zurich prosecutors last year agreed to hand him over, an appeal from an unnamed aide that the Federal Criminal Court said Friday he had rejected.
“Japanese authorities have concrete indications that money allegedly of criminal origin has been deposited in two accounts in the name of the complainant,” the judgment said.
The decision did not name the business associate who filed the appeal. Zurich prosecutors identified him only as an Arab businessman with accounts at two Zurich-based banks, which they did not name.
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