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A Tokyo court has awarded a bond to Carlos Ghosn, a few days after prosecutors accused fourth-time Nissan's former president of being the victim of misuse of funds from the company. 39; company.
The bond was set at 500 million yen ($ 4.5 million), according to the Tokyo District Court.
Ghosn, who faces separate charges of under-reporting salary and transferring losses from his personal investments to Nissan, may leave the detention center as early as Thursday afternoon to prepare his defense.
Ghosn spent 108 days in detention after his first arrest in November and his bail in early March. His bond ended abruptly earlier this month when he was arrested again for making Nissan lose $ 5 million by pbading money from a corporate fund. discretionary in a company run by his wife, Carole, who was used to buying a luxury yacht product.
Ghosn has repeatedly denied all allegations. On Monday, a spokesman for the former leader of the auto industry said he would "vigorously defend himself against these baseless accusations and that he hoped to be justified".
A few days after his last arrest, his lawyers broadcast a video message in which he accused Nissan executives of conspiring to arrest him, fearing unfounded grounds for his plan for a closer alliance between the Japanese automaker and Renault.
Aged 65, who resigned from his position as president of Renault and was dismissed from his leadership positions at Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors, he said he was innocent of all charges, describing them as "biased , out of context and paint a character of greed and a character of the dictatorship ".
"It's a conspiracy," he said in the video, which was recorded shortly before he returned to custody. "There are no specific events, greed or dictatorship. It's about a conspiracy. It's about conspiracy. It's about stabbing.
His lawyers criticized the prosecutor's treatment of their client, describing his last detention as "inhuman" and "illegal". His spokesman said that Ghosn was being held "in cruel and unjust conditions, in violation of his human rights, in order that prosecutors attempt to make him confess".
The Frenchman, who also has Brazilian and Lebanese nationalities, arrived in Japan in the late 1990s and was credited with rescuing Nissan from bankruptcy, before forging a successful alliance with Renault and Mitsubishi.
It is unclear whether bail conditions set in March will apply this time.
In March, Ghosn agreed not to leave Japan and live in a small apartment in downtown Tokyo, equipped with a camera, equipped with a camera to monitor his movements. He was not allowed to access the Internet and his off-line use of computers was limited to weekday office hours at his lawyer's office.
No date has been set for the Ghosn trial. His senior lawyer, Junichiro Hironaka, said that a trial as early as the autumn was "not possible for various reasons".
Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.
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