BREAKING: Nissan's Ghosn arrested again in financial misconduct case
Ghosn was returned Thursday to the Tokyo Detention Center, officials there said. It is the same facility where he spent more than three months following his arrest in November, before his release on bail just a month earlier.
"My arrest this morning is outrageous and arbitrary," Ghosn said in the statement. "It is part of another attempt by some individuals at Nissan to silence me by misleading the prosecutors. Why arrest me except to try to break me? I will not be broken. I am innocent of the groundless charges and accusations against me."
Ghosn's lawyer Junichiro Hironaka denounced the arrest, stressing that a re-arrest during release on bail was unusual. His release on bail in March was unusually quick for Japan, where long detentions without convictions are routine. Ghosn has said the allegations of under-reported compensation at Nissan involved payments that were never decided on or that were to be paid in the future. He has also said Nissan never suffered losses for his personal investments and that allegedly dubious payments in Saudi Arabia were for legitimate services.
The allegations in the most recent arrest cover three money transfer operations from 2015 through last year, according to the prosecutors. Hironaka said this week that at least two Nissan employees are co-operating with the prosecutors. Several other Nissan officials have been questioned by the prosecutors as part of the investigation.
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