Carlos Ghosn Has Tales to Tell and Scores to Settle

Executive’s campaign to salvage his legacy will start soon
Nissan, Tokyo prosecutors, French elite likely to feel heat

WATCH: Carlos Ghosn’s dramatic escape to Lebanon continues to pose more questions than answers(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Brian Bremner and Young-Sam Cho

January 1, 2020 at 12:02 PM UTC

Updated on

January 2, 2020 at 2:03 AM UTC

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Carlos Ghosn has spent more than a year trapped in a Japanese legal odyssey that’s transfixed the automotive world and thrown his life into chaos. Now, having pulled off a daring escape from Japan to Lebanon, he’s an international fugitive.

But the executive is also free to speak his mind fully, without legal filtering, for the first time since his surprise arrest on the tarmac at Haneda airport back in November 2018. And this much seems likely: The former head of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA has stories to tell and scores to settle.