Former Nissan exec Greg Kelly returns to U.S. after Ghosn-related trial

Beneath the phrases of Kelly’s suspended sentence, the Tennessee lawyer and former human assets govt is allowed to return to the U.S.

Kelly’s protection crew filed an enchantment towards the responsible verdict final week, insisting on full vindication for his or her consumer. In the meantime, Tokyo prosecutors are weighing their very own enchantment.

The appeals course of is anticipated to final one other yr, however Kelly doesn’t must be current in Japan for these proceedings throughout that interval, his protection legal professional mentioned.

Prosecutors accused Ghosn and Kelly of hiding some 9.three billion yen ($80.5 million) in postponed compensation from 2010 to 2018. Each males, arrested the identical day in 2018, deny wrongdoing.

However after Ghosn fled Japan for Lebanon in 2019, Kelly was left to battle the costs alone.

Kelly’s prolonged trial got here to an finish with judges discovering Kelly responsible of aiding Ghosn within the one yr. In addition they discovered Nissan Motor Co., as a company entity, responsible and fined the corporate 200 million yen ($1.73 million) for falsifying annual securities stories.

Though Ghosn was not technically on trial, the chief decide additionally slammed the previous chairman of the Renault, Nisan, Mitsubishi alliance for conspiring to hide postponed compensation that ought to have been disclosed in these annual stories.