With Carlos Ghosn Set to Bare All, Nissan Prepares Its Offensive

Former CEO to hold news conference in Beirut on Wednesday
Nissan spent more than $200 million probing its former chief

A large screen displays an image of Carlos Ghosn, in Tokyo, in Nov. 2018.Photographer: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images

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By Matthew Campbell, Kae Inoue, and Reed Stevenson

January 7, 2020 at 12:12 PM UTC

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Nissan Motor Co. and Carlos Ghosn are back on a collision course.

The Japanese automaker is preparing for a renewed legal and public relations battle against its former chairman and chief executive officer as Ghosn vows to hit back at the company he turned around two decades ago, but which he blames for engineering his downfall. Ghosn will hold a news conference Wednesday in Beirut, where he fled to escape trial in Japan on charges of understating his pay and misusing company money.