In , he was arrested in Japan on suspicion of financial misconduct at Nissan, having been accused of understating his annual salary and misusing company funds. In , while under house arrest awaiting trial, he escaped from Japan by concealing himself inside a large box which was shipped as freight on a private jet.
Carlos' father, Jorge Ghosn died was a diamond trader and worked in the airline industry. Jorge was convicted of murdering a priest in Sawfar , Lebanon in Carlos Ghosn was born on 9 March , in Porto Velho.
After graduation in , Ghosn spent 18 years at Michelin , Europe's largest tire maker, initially training and working in several plants in France and Germany. In , Ghosn became executive vice president in charge of purchasing, advanced research, engineering and development, powertrain operations, and manufacturing at Renault; and he was also in charge of Renault's South American division, located in the Mercosur.
Ghosn's "Nissan Revival Plan", announced in October , called for a return to profitability in fiscal year , a profit margin in excess of 4. He defied Japanese business etiquette in various ways, including by eliminating seniority-based and age-based promotion, by changing lifetime employment from a guarantee to a desired goal for when the company achieved high performance, and by dismantling Nissan's keiretsu system; an interwoven web of parts suppliers with cross-holdings in Nissan.
In May , Ghosn was named president and chief executive officer of Renault. In , billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian acquired a 9. In , GM's embattled management rebuffed the takeover attempt, and by the end of the year, Kerkorian's Tracinda Corp. In , Ford Motor Co. Bill Ford Jr.
