ANALYSIS – The ex-boss of Renault and Nissan has acknowledged payments in his favor from an Omani distributor of the alliance, but denies any wrongdoing.
On November 19, 2018, while Carlos Ghosn was arrested when his plane landed in Tokyo, Japanese investigators searched his apartment and recovered two disturbing documents. A guarantee of 30 million dollars granted by a Saudi businessman. And a loan of 25 million dollars granted to Carlos Ghosn’s wife at the time, Rita, by Suhail Bahwan, an Omani, founder of the SBA group which distributes Renault and Nissan vehicles in the Middle East from which he sold more than 500,000 copies.
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This second document put the Japanese justice, then the French justice on a track which has been worth for two weeks to the former boss of the Renault-Nissan group to be under the blow of an international arrest warrant, signed by the court of Nanterre. This is also the case of Suhail Bahwan, 83, officially retired from business, two of his children, Ahmed and Omar, who took over, and the managing director of SBA, an Indian, Divyendu Kumar. Carlos Ghosn is charged…
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