{"id":2457,"date":"2018-11-27T15:06:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T15:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2018-11-27T15:06:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T15:06:51","slug":"former-nissan-chairman-carlos-ghosn-denies-salary-fraud-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2018\/11\/27\/former-nissan-chairman-carlos-ghosn-denies-salary-fraud-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn denies salary fraud charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn, who was arrested on Monday on suspicion of financial misconduct, has denied the allegations against him, Japanese broadcaster\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/20181125_18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHK<\/a>\u00a0has reported.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Nissan voted to remove Ghosn as chairman on Thursday after accusing the 64-year-old of &#8220;significant acts of misconduct&#8221;, including under-reporting his salary and using company assets for his personal benefit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Ghosn, who has not spoken publicly, told investigators that he had no intention of under-reporting his salary on financial documents and has denied allegations against him, NHK said on Sunday, without giving sources.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese prosecutors have said Ghosn and Greg Kelly, a former Nissan executive who has also been arrested, allegedly falsified the former&#8217;s compensation at Nissan over five years from 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly was quoted by NHK on Saturday as defending Ghosn&#8217;s compensation, saying it was discussed with other officials and paid out appropriately.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-also-read article-embed-tb-block article-embedded-card \">\n<div class=\"topic-label\">READ MORE<\/div>\n<h4><a class=\"article-embed-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/11\/nissan-board-fires-chairman-carlos-ghosn-media-181122121532041.html\">Nissan board fires chairman Carlos Ghosn: media<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the Financial Times, Ghosn was reportedly planning to strengthen a partnership between Nissan and Renault at the French government&#8217;s request, despite\u00a0the Japanese firm&#8217;s\u00a0strong reservations about it.<\/p>\n<p>Ghosn served as CEO of Renault and,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-nissan-ghosn-compensation-factbox\/factbox-how-carlos-ghosns-pay-compares-with-other-top-auto-executives-idUSKCN1NS0P5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Reuters<\/a>\u00a0news agency, he was reportedly earning\u00a0$8.4m from Renault,\u00a0$6.5m from Nissan and $2m from Mitsubishi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn, who was arrested on Monday on suspicion of financial misconduct, has denied the allegations against him, Japanese broadcaster\u00a0NHK\u00a0has reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}