The French government asked Goan to make the alliance irreversible. Nissan owned 15% of Renou but didn't have voting rights so had little say in how it was run. In early 2018 a small group of executives within Nissan got alarmed over this. An auditor within Nissan started to question some of the financial dealings that Goan had. He would be flown to Tokyo and we learned later on as the case developed that essentially these charges were used to access even more information that was held by Goan.
It was huge news when Carlos Ghosn, the once-celebrated auto executive, vanished from Japan in 2019 after being charged with financial crimes. He later emerged in Beirut, where he’s lived ever since, beyond the reach of Japanese authorities. Now the American father and son team who helped carry out his spy-novel escape are coming forward. They served time in a Japanese prison and are hoping Ghosn will help them pay off millions of dollars in legal bills.
Bloomberg journalists Reed Stevenson and Brian Bremner join this episode to tell the story of what Ghosn’s escape cost the men—and the very different lives they, and Ghosn, live today.
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