MILANO – Carlos Ghosn, former CEO of Renault-Nissan arrested in 2018 for tax fraud and misuse of company assets (then released on bail and fled to Lebanon, after a second arrest and subsequent release), will have to return 5 million euros to the Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, joint venture under Dutch law.
The court of Amsterdam ruled that Ghosn will have to return what he received during his tenure, between April and November 2018. The manager, who intends to appeal, had in turn filed a lawsuit to contest the irregularity in his dismissal, especially as regards indemnities and emoluments, requesting 15 million euros for damages.
The Dutch court rejected this application, explaining that a regular employment contract had not been signed for those months: the previous contract, which began in July 2012, expired in April 2018, but Ghosn remained in office until his dismissal in November. of the same year, so now he will have to repay the salaries received in that period.
“It has not been sufficiently proven that he worked in the interest of Nissan-Mitsubishi,” concludes the Dutch judge’s ruling. Ghosn has always claimed his innocence and denounced a plot by some top executives against him.
At the end of 2019 the manager was arrested in Tokyo and fled flying to Lebanon, where there is no extraction agreement with Japan, one continues to proclaim his innocence.
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