Out of detention: A file picture showing pedestrians looking at a television news programme featuring Kelly in Tokyo. The embattled Kelly left the Tokyo detention centre with his lawyer, Yoichi Kitamura, by taxi, according to a witness. — AFP
TOKYO: Former Nissan Motor co-representative director Greg Kelly has been released on bail after more than a month in detention on financial-misconduct charges, as a Tokyo court rejected prosecutors’ request to keep the American executive in custody.
Kelly and Carlos Ghosn, the automaker’s ousted chairman, were detained upon arrival in Japan on Nov 19 on suspicion of understating Ghosn’s income in financial statements for several years.
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