Inside the Takedown That Put Carlos Ghosn in Jail

He never saw it coming

Feb 1, 2019 · 22 min read

Illustration: Woshibai for Bloomberg Businessweek

By Matthew Campbell, Kae Inoue, Jie Ma, and Ania Nussbaum

One morning last November, several hundred businesspeople filed into an auditorium on the third floor of a skyscraper in Tokyo’s financial district. The occasion was a forum marking the centenary of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan. Among…

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