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Car manager Ghosn (archive image): wanted internationally
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France's judiciary has issued an international arrest warrant for car manager Carlos Ghosn, who fled to Lebanon.
It is about allegations of embezzlement of assets and money laundering, as the public prosecutor's office in Nanterre near Paris announced.
Accordingly, there are suspicious payments of 15 million euros that are said to have flowed between the Renault-Nissan alliance and the auto supplier SBA.
Ghosn, former head of the three-way alliance of carmakers Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi, was arrested in Japan in November 2018.
The Japanese judiciary accused him, among other things, of having transferred private losses to the car manufacturer Nissan.
Ghosn denies the allegations.
The ex-manager with French, Brazilian and Lebanese citizenship fled from Japan to Lebanon at the end of 2019 in a spectacular action and has since been wanted by Japan on an international arrest warrant.
He is not allowed to leave Lebanon, which does not extradite him.
mic/AFP
