Fugitive Carlos Ghosn says he was treated brutally after arrest

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'I didn't escape because I was guilty, I escaped because I had zero chance for a free trial,' says former Nissan Renault boss at news conference.

Carlos Ghosn hit out at the 'brutality' of the Japanese justice system, saying he was interrogated for up to eight hours a day., speaking publicly for the first time since his dramatic escape from Japanese justice, said on Wednesday he had been treated “brutally” by Tokyo prosecutors and was the victim of an inside job to oust him from the helm of automaker Nissan.

The one-time titan of the car industry said in a two-hour news conference in Beirut on Wednesday that he had no choice but to flee. The alternative was to spend the rest of his life languishing in Japan without a fair trial., 65, fled Japan last month as he was awaiting trial on charges of underreporting earnings, breach of trust and misappropriation of company funds, all of which he denies.

 

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