They are the only ones reaping the benefits and it's unacceptable. Our management should have a sense of responsibility following a recent string of scandals.

Not easy to explain to a hard working blue collar guy with a family on the machine line why their bosses, who already earn absurd amounts of money, feel the need to evade tax and take even more. But what percentage of CEOs actually are fully above board and honest? Very few I imagine, but will never know. This will push all the emotional triggers and buttons for a good story. The fact that he’s a foreigner is especially potent.

Watch how this plays out in the J-media, and read between the lines. The press were already all lined up at one of Ghosns favourite yakitori joints for interviews this morning with the owner, which was a completely useless story but they did manage to paint him as a cheap customer. Kechi kechi , greedy greedy!

They've thrown him to the lions that's for sure.

Watch how corporate Japan uses this as a means of suppressing foreign management in their companies.

In my experience there are two types of rich people, those who just breathe life into anything and create wealth and those who get rich by depriving others and cheating. Unfortunately the former are a rare breed and the latter are the majority. Ghosn is one of the latter. Glad he got caught.

Many old companies like Nissan are no longer companies that bring values to the world, they're companies in which managers are vultures, in it solely to grab everything and benefit themselves.

@BertieWooster "Glad he got caught."

Even though it is not fully understood here, you should know better. Innocent until/unless found guilty.

The board, the auditors, the accounting and finance department had to have been involved. If Ghosn is found guilty, the board, auditors, and finance people who approved the payments should be arrested as co-conspirators.

Considering how slow things move in Japan, it is amazing how fast Ghosn was thrown under the bus with his successor already chosen, and all of the so called evidence in order without a raid, and officers were waiting for him at the airport.