Carlos Ghosn accused Japan of “repaying me with evil” for his decades of service, as he lashed out at the country’s justice system and “unscrupulous, vindictive” figures at Nissan who he claimed concocted a criminal case to destroy him.
The first public remarks by the carmaker’s former chairman since his 2018 arrest in Tokyo came in an hour-long monologue at a Beirut press conference on Wednesday.
He did not describe his dramatic escape from bail in Tokyo to his parents’ native Lebanon, which does not extradite its citizens, in late December. However, he said he had been numb, nervous and anxious until he was reunited with his wife in Beirut.