tokyo prosecutors: The initial arrest last November over what some viewed as a relatively minor charge of understating compensation was a tactical move to buy time to analyze money flowing to and from Oman, according to people familiar with the matter, according to The Japan Times. Additional charges followed. Turns out that was just the opening act. Nissan executives have since been cooperating with Tokyo prosecutors and received plea agreements in at least two instances, according to the people, who asked not to be named discussing private matters. ; The ousted auto titan is now facing far more serious charges that he enriched himself via a web of complex financial transactions involving business partners in Oman and Saudi Arabia, as well as in his ancestral home of Lebanon, where he's still lionized as a visionary. A Tokyo court on Friday approved his detention through April 14. With prosecutors confident they could make a case, they arrested Ghosn again on April 4, just weeks after he'd been released on bail.
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