The lawyers who helped to build, and bring down, Carlos Ghosn

Carlos Ghosn — Ghosn's arrest by Tokyo prosecutors on Nov. 19, 2018, stunned the business world, shock that was compounded just over a year later when the executive escaped from Japan while out on bail. (BLOOMBERG)

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Reed Stevenson

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November 19, 2021 09:40 AM

In the three years since Carlos Ghosn was detained on a Tokyo airport tarmac, much has emerged about how forces within Nissan worked to remove him. Yet a key group has avoided close scrutiny of their role in the once-powerful car executive’s downfall: the lawyers.

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