Court allows Ghosn to change residence in Tokyo

Stay strong, Ghosn! Make the prosecutors actually do their jobs instead of relying on forced confessions.

The 65-year-old ousted chairman, who has denied all charges of financial misconduct, made the request to move into a house in Minato Ward after he was released on 500 million yen ($4.5 million) bail on April 26.

For a person that only being indicted, compared to other white collar cases like Olympus, Livedoor and Tepco his bail is one the highest one.

Just read this article for number comparison.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/crime-legal/examining-carlos-ghosn-japans-system-hostage-justice/

Ghosn has been permitted by a Japanese court to change his residence to a house in Tokyo from a condominium

So he can have barbeques now! Unfortunately, he is not likely to get a fair trial.

Nissan should make his face in this photo into a car hood ornament. He is spitting absolute FIRE.

Love it!

No one is guilty until they have their day in court when the court will decide guilt or innocent and not public opinion.

Absolutly right.

I hope that from now on, judges will put away their rubber stamps and listen to what the defendant has to say.

Secondly, the cost of bail/bond should be set to sensible levels. I would like to see ordinary Japanese people benefit from what has become a diobolical episode regarding rule of law.

I have not seen any evidence. Only talk from Nissan and the Prosecution. So none of this is fact. None of this.

I haven't seen the evidence.

As you are not the prosecutors/judges nor the defendant or his lawyers, you'll never see the whole set. They never publish the book of evidence for any trial (OK, they did for Jeanne d'Arc ), some evidence remain private. Then, unless you have a solid background in accounting, you wouldn't recognize most of the pieces of evidence. I have seen already a number of things, including here on JT. There was a transcript of Ghosn's own declaration. What Ghosn said he did, that counts a lot. He clearly admits shouldering his debts on Nissan. At that point, his 'presumption' of being arrested for nada in November was totally over. Just with that, he did enough to get more jail time that he already did. That his conviction is acted is a just a timing matter. He knows it. But he's free to say otherwise.

Mr. Ghosn can find a landlord willing to rent to foreigners

He can buy any house in Tokyo.

I certainly hope Mr. Ghosn can find a landlord willing to rent to foreigners because they are generally noisy, incapable to properly separating their trash/recyclables, and because they can't communicate esily in Japanese, they are difficult to have as residents.

Old Hat.

zichi, what evidence do you need ? Ghosn was arrested twice, is it not factual ? What is the basis for you to trust the book of court ?

*I have seen already a number of things, including here on JT. There was a transcript of Ghosn's own declaration. What Ghosn said he did, that counts a lot. He clearly admits shouldering his debts on Nissan.*

He "clearly" admits nothing. Here we go again with Japanese (so called) rule of law. Actus Rea not even clear, No Mens Rea at all, dispite his disgusting treatment which by the standards of any civilised country beggers belief.

What is the basis for you to trust the book of court ?

What exactly is the "book of court?" I know of no such phase in the English language.

Even if he is found guilty it would not take away from the ridiculous kangaroo court masqurading as a justice system in this country.

I can see the headlines... Ghosn found "not guilty"

I don't think anyone should be judged by public opinion.

That's what you are doing. 3 teams of independant auditors and a team of professional judges have based themselves on evidence and found Ghosn guilty of a breaking laws on a several accounts. And the JT opinion court decided all these professional justice officers did not do their job.

 everyone is innocent until they have their day in court. 

Try that next time you get a speeding ticket : "I am innocent of speeding until I get my day in court...". Of course, that your car was caught by the speed-meter machine is not absolute evidence (absolute evidence does not exist in this world). You can go to court and appeal. At this point, there is still a chance the 4 (soon to be 5) audits of Ghosn's financial moves measured wrongly the speed... or someone else was driving.

What a mess. Time wasting & wasting of tax payer's money.