Former Nissan director Greg Kelly’s trial could also be over, however the authorized circumstances reside on

Internally at Nissan, executives and staff say they merely wish to put the Ghosn saga to relaxation. In a present of solidarity, the three international alliance companions, Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi, collectively introduced plans in January to invest $26 billion in electric vehicle development. Leaders additionally talked massive about their improved relations within the wake of the fractious Ghosn upheaval.

“We’re demonstrating clearly that the ties are extraordinarily robust. I believe at this time that they’re, in impact, unbreakable,” Alliance Working Board Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard stated then.

However Nissan breathed new life into the saga with its newest lawsuit in opposition to Kelly. It got here to gentle in March that the automaker had filed its civil swimsuit in opposition to the previous director in Yokohama District Courtroom on Jan. 19.

“Nissan has already expressed its primary coverage to hunt accountability in regards to the misconduct by the previous chairman and others,” Nissan stated of the lawsuit. “Since Greg Kelly cooperated within the former chairman’s nondisclosure of his compensation as director in Nissan’s annual securities stories, Nissan has filed a civil lawsuit in opposition to Kelly looking for damages.”

If Kelly’s responsible verdict sticks, it might jeopardize payout of his Nissan pension. On the identical time, overturning the conviction on enchantment might make it simpler for Kelly to pursue his personal countersuit once more Nissan, one thing his authorized crew says it’s contemplating.

Protection lawyer Yoichi Kitamura is assured in prevailing throughout the appeals course of, on condition that the decrease courtroom has discovered Kelly not responsible of most allegations — and that the primary witness for the responsible rely was deemed unreliable in most of his different testimony.

“We’re assured we’ll win the legal case in the long run,” Kitamura stated. “Now we have to have an entire victory.”