Spending much of his time at 9K m, confident that Kelly and others had worked out the details of his ample compensation, Ghosn didn’t notice that some of his closest colleagues in Japan were working to engineer his arrest. At times, he’d been collecting more than 2x as much pay as the rest of Nissan’s directors combined, in addition to his other salaries and 5 company residences. He might simply have been enjoying the spoils of corporate success, as his defenders insist. Or, as Nissan and prosecutors argue, he might have transgressed legal and ethical bounds. Either way, he gave his enemies an opening.

2020-01-07: he’s back in corporate housing:

See, Ghosn jumped bail in Japan because he was falsely accused of stealing from Nissan: He paid himself much more money than the officially approved compensation that was reported to investors, charges that he has strenuously denied. “I have not fled justice – I have escaped injustice and political persecution”. And to prove his innocence he escaped from Japan to Lebanon, where … he is stealing from Nissan? Where he’s living in a mansion owned by Nissan, without Nissan’s permission? “The nerve of them, to accuse me of taking anything from Nissan that isn’t mine”, wandering around Nissan’s mansion in Nissan’s bathrobe, taking snacks out of Nissan’s refrigerator as Nissan’s guards glower at him. What?

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