One of the lawyers representing Carlos Ghosn said Monday he is optimistic the Tokyo District Court will soon grant bail to the former Nissan Motor…
One of the lawyers representing Carlos Ghosn said Monday he is optimistic the Tokyo District Court will soon grant bail to the former Nissan Motor Co. chairman.
Speculation is running high that the court will issue a decision in the next few days on whether to let Ghosn out of the Tokyo Detention House.
“I believe that his potential time of release could be in the near future,” attorney Junichiro Hironaka said during a news conference in Tokyo.
He added that he plans to file an appeal if the request is rejected.
Hironaka held the news conference only days after his legal team submitted Ghosn’s third request for bail. The request, submitted Thursday, was the first since Hironaka joined the defense team and the latest bid to secure the conditional release of the ousted 64-year-old Brazilian-born French auto executive.
The court rejected the previous two applications after prosecutors filed fresh charges against him.
Hironaka revealed that the legal team is examining part of the evidence shared by prosecutors last week, and that they cited in the bail proposal Ghosn’s limited ability to communicate with people on the outside.
