[colorado tanker]

I think the whole thing was a trumped up, political prosecution. The Japanese couldn’t stand the idea that Nissan was being run by a Frenchman.

[Spktyr]

Enough that they’d waited a decade-plus for it? Yeah, I don’t think so.

[Svartalfiar]

I think the whole thing was a trumped up, political prosecution.

I don't have much of anything to go off of, but the following sentence from the excerpt makes me think this was quite a lot of fake charges. How do you "under-report future income"?

was arrested in November 2018 on financial misconduct charges of under-reporting his future compensation and breach of trust.