This time, Carlos Ghosn is not the main suspect.
A Lebanese judge has indicted four Nissan employees for theft of documents from the home and office in Beirut of the company's former boss, we learned on Saturday from a judicial source.
A lawyer for the company, Sakher al-Hashem, told AFP that the legal action was "illegal" and that Nissan would seek to have the charges dropped.
The judge decided to prosecute "four senior Nissan officials" - a Japanese, a Spaniard, a French and a British -, accusing them of having "committed crimes", indicated the judicial source.
The “most important” accusation concerns the entry “against his will” into the office and residence of Carlos Ghosn in Beirut, “the theft of documents, files, electronic devices, access to his computer system. “private information and copying of data,” she added.
A lawsuit filed by Ghosn
These accusations follow a lawsuit filed against Nissan by its former boss alleging the “fabrication of evidence leading to his arrest in Japan and tarnishing his reputation,” according to the same source.
The defendants had been summoned as part of the preliminary investigation but did not appear in court, she added.
The case was referred to the first investigating judge of Beirut, requesting “the issuance of arrest warrants”.
Carlos Ghosn, who has Lebanese, French and Brazilian nationalities, was arrested at the end of 2018 in Japan where he was to be tried for alleged financial embezzlement when he was head of the Renault-Nissan group.
He found refuge in Lebanon at the end of 2019 after an incredible escape from Japan.
He maintains his innocence.