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Former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said French criminal investigators will travel to Beirut for questioning next year to investigate expenses covered by a Dutch subsidiary of Renault SA and Nissan Motor.
According to a report seen by Al Arabiya, French authorities are investigating the former Renault company’s president’s dealings with a car dealer in the Sultanate of Oman and expenses on events and trips that may be personal, in addition to payments made by Renault-Nissan BV to consultants.
“Why should I flee from the French judiciary?” Ghosn said in a television interview with “TF1” that was broadcast on Sunday and reported by Bloomberg. “I will answer the questions that are directed to me, with a clear conscience.”
He said he made a “mistake” when he accepted a proposal from the Palace of Versailles to use a room in a former residence of the French monarchy for free to celebrate his wife’s fiftieth birthday.
“If I had known everything that was going to happen and how it might look, I would never have known,” Ghosn said in the report.
Ghosn, who has French and Brazilian passports, said he would not risk traveling to the two countries for fear that any problems along the route would give Japanese authorities a chance to accept his extradition. He said he maintains armed bodyguards, although he does not believe any jurisdiction is trying to kidnap him.
Ghosn said: “I am forced to stay in Lebanon.”
Ghosn was arrested in Tokyo almost two years ago and fled to Lebanon last December. He tells his version of events in a book in French that will be sold this week. Its title translates as “Time of truth”.
He told TF1 that planning the leak took “a few weeks”, rather than months.
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