Basically he was fighting to have Renault combine with Nissan to give Renault a bigger customer base and the Nissan board said no. He kept on pushing the issue so the board basically reported to the courts all the taxes he evaded and the court crushed him.
In Japan, they can keep you for almost 30 without a charge and interview you relentlessly and renew that status several times. Nissan basically used this and the criminal charges to get rid of him, because they knew for over a decade all the money he was amassing and how.
They wouldn’t treat a Japanese exec like this, I’m sure.
This guy was the same thing for Renault and Nissan as Lee Iacocca for the US auto industry.
Spot on. A lesson to all so called free traders that this free trade system is built on a lie.