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Ghosn's Japanese legal team resigns
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IANS | 16 Jan, 2020
The Japanese legal team of ousted Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn has
formally resigned after the executives escape from the country while out
on bail and awaiting trial, it was confirmed on Thursday.
Both
Junichiro Hironaka, Ghosn's principal lawyer and one of the most
respected in the country, and Takashi Takano, who helped arrange bail
for Ghosn, have resigned, their respective offices confirmed to Efe
news.
The revelation of the lawyers' resignations came the same
day in which a preparatory meeting was held for the trial, the start of
which was scheduled for this spring and is now uncertain given Ghosn's
unlikely return to Tokyo.
Japanese law does not allow defendants
to be tried in absentia for cases such as that which concerns Ghosn,
although no final decision on this case has been announced.
Ghosn's
lawyers were scheduled to participate in Thursday's meeting to explain
the auto executive's escape and his activities while on bail, but did
not attend, according to local media.
Hironaka's law firm last
week rebuffed an attempt by the prosecutor's office to seize one of the
computers used by Ghosn during his release on bail, considering that
surrendering it would violate attorney-client confidentiality.
The lawyer does not intend to appear before reporters to explain the decision, he said in a brief statement.
Ghosn
fled clandestinely from Japan to Lebanon at the end of December while
on bail over alleged financial misconduct charges, the trial for which
was expected in April.
The former Nissan chairman who has French,
Brazilian and Lebanese passports, pulled off a daring escape from the
Asian country and is currently in Beirut, from where he has continued to
insist he "did not escape justice. I fled injustice and persecution,
political persecution".
The Lebanese public prosecutor's office
received an Interpol red notice requesting authorities provisionally
arrest Ghosn pending extradition or a similar procedure, seeing as Japan
doesn't have an extradition treaty with Lebanon.
For now, the
Lebanese prosecutor's office, which is investigating Ghosn for a
separate case linked to its national interests, has prohibited the
businessman from leaving the country.
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