A Lebanese judge has charged four Nissan employees with stealing documents and devices from the home of the company's former president, Carlos Ghosn, in Beirut, according to a judicial source on Saturday. The company's legal representative stated in a statement to Agence France-Presse that the legal action is "illegal" and that the company will seek to have the charges dropped.
The source, speaking anonymously as they are not authorized to speak to the media, revealed that the judge in Beirut has decided to prosecute "four senior Nissan officials" from Japanese, Spanish, French, and British nationalities, accusing them of "committing several crimes."
The main accusation is that they unlawfully entered Ghosn's office and home in Beirut, "against his will, stealing documents, files, and electronic devices, accessing his information system, tampering with its contents, and copying data." This indictment comes in the wake of a lawsuit filed by Ghosn, in which he claimed that "fabricated evidence led to his arrest in Japan and damaged his reputation."
