"So much has been done to manipulate opinion around what I've done and who I am, that I think it's important that I restore my image," the ex-mogul said. automobile to our special correspondent, Thursday, in Beirut, during an interview during which he confided in his expectations.
The former businessman, who had fled from Japan where he was to be tried, hidden in a large box of audio equipment, felt that he had "evolved, matured" since this "trauma".
“You don't go through what I went through, without finding traces of it in yourself.
I value a number of things that were in me and that have matured much more.
For example, it is obvious that today, I give priority to what surrounds my relationship with my wife and my children.
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Carlos Ghosn, 67, also spoke about the Japanese judicial system, which he considers "very dark".
“It's not the Japan I knew in 1999. Here we are in a harsh Japan, much more closed in on itself, brutal.
It's an exceptional system that drives you to suicide, but holds you back at the last moment.
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In November 2018, the man who was still CEO of Renault, president of Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors and head of the alliance between the three automotive groups, was arrested after landing in Tokyo, then charged for not having declared income that Nissan had to pay him later and aggravated breach of trust.
The Franco-Lebanese-Brazilian, who had been stuck in Japan on bail since April 2019 pending trial, has always maintained his innocence all along the line and denounced a plot at Nissan to bring him down, in fear of a project of closer union with Renault.
