{"id":34329,"date":"2019-03-06T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34329"},"modified":"2019-03-06T09:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:22:59","slug":"former-nissan-chief-ghosn-leaves-jail-after-posting-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34329","title":{"rendered":"Former Nissan chief Ghosn leaves jail after posting bail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn has been released from jail after posting a bail of 1 billion yen ($9m) in cash on Wednesday, more than three months after he was arrested.<\/p>\n

The business tycoon walked out of the detention centre in northern Toyko after the court rejected a last-ditch appeal from prosecutors to block his release.<\/p>\n

Ghosn once again proclaimed his innocence of the charges levelled against him<\/a>, which include claims he under-reported his salary and sought to shift personal losses to Nissan’s books.<\/p>\n

“I am innocent and totally committed to vigorously defending myself in a fair trial against these meritless and unsubstantiated accusations,” the 64-year-old said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Members of Ghosn’s family were seen entering the building prior to his release.<\/p>\n

The surprise court ruling granting Ghosn bail came after two unsuccessful previous attempts to win release and was the latest twist in a case that has gripped Japan and the business world since the auto industry titan’s November 19 arrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ghosn shook up his legal team last month, hiring renowned defence lawyer Junichiro Hironaka, who quickly filed a new bail request.<\/p>\n

The court had previously justified Ghosn’s ongoing detention, saying he posed a flight risk and could seek to destroy evidence, so Hironaka’s bail request offered restrictions intended to win the court’s trust.<\/p>\n

The bail terms prevent Ghosn from leaving Japan<\/a> and include other measures restricting his communications.<\/p>\n

Kyodo news agency said the measures will restrict Ghosn’s mobile phone use and allow him to access a computer only in his lawyer’s office during daytime hours on weekdays.<\/p>\n

He will also be banned from contacting Nissan executives and other people with links to the allegations against him, the agency reported.<\/p>\n

But Kyodo said Ghosn could still attend board meetings at Nissan, where he remains a director, if the court allows it.<\/p>\n

His former right-hand man Greg Kelly, who was also detained November 19 on allegations he helped under-report the tycoon’s compensation, was freed on bail of 70 million yen ($635,000) on December 25 last year.<\/p>\n

If convicted on all charges, Ghosn faces up to 15 years in jail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn has been released from jail after posting a bail of 1 billion yen ($9m) in cash on Wednesday, more than three months after he was arrested. The business tycoon walked out of the detention centre in northern Toyko after the court rejected a last-ditch appeal from prosecutors to block his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}