Tokyo prosecutor severely blamed by Carlos Ghosn's lawyer

The World with AFP Posted today at 01:31

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of the "Lack of impartiality". In a forum at Sunday newspaper (JDD) of 1^st September, the French lawyer Carlos Ghosn, the former CEO of Renault-Nissan, under four indictments in Japan, head against the prosecution in Tokyo.

"It's time to denounce the human rights violations of which the Tokyo prosecutor has been guilty", ensures M^e François Zimeray, who denounces "His blinding collusion with Nissan and the country's political authorities".

"All seems permissible to the Japanese prosecutor for whom the challenge is as much not to lose face as to blast the French tutelage on Nissan by protecting its current leaders with whom was passed a secret agreement. "

"Exceptional hard work"

The lawyer believes that "Everything was done to root, before his trial, the idea of ​​guilt of Carlos Ghosn, including the distillation in the press of "confidences" systematically dependent and leaving no doubt about their origin: the Tokyo prosecutor ".

"How can a democracy accept that a couple is deprived of all contact for 150 days by revenge on the wife who was right to denounce the excesses of a system, the prosecutor daring the argument: "It has alerted heads of state and public opinion … There is no way to silence her" "asks François Zimeray. Mr. Ghosn and his wife Carole are forbidden to talk to each other.

"The treatment of our compatriot is discriminatory", he continues, holding that "This extraordinary harassment compromises the possibility of a fair trial".

Mr Ghosn's lawyer adds that in France, "The great principles have not long resisted the quest for good conscience, taking precedence over the truth". In his eyes, Renault's Board of Directors deprived its former CEO of his rights to remuneration and retirement "Without waiting to see clearly", and extracts from an audit "Were disseminated even before the principal concerned was called upon to justify himself".

Carlos Ghosn was arrested on November 19, 2018, when he landed in Tokyo. The 65-year-old Franco-Lebanese-Brazilian leader is suspected of failing to report a large part of his income to the stock market authorities between 2010 and 2015. Released on bail in April, he is now awaiting trial in Japan.