「元側近は無実」　ゴーン被告、司法制度批判―特派員協会でオンライン会見

　役員報酬を隠したとして金融商品取引法違反罪などで起訴され、レバノンに逃亡した日産自動車前会長カルロス・ゴーン被告（６７）は６日、日本外国特派員協会主催のオンライン記者会見で、自身の報酬隠しに加担したとして同罪に問われている元側近の同社元代表取締役グレッグ・ケリー被告（６５）について「無実で、誤った逮捕だ」と述べた。
　会見は著書の日本版出版に合わせて行われた。ゴーン被告は「事件は捏造（ねつぞう）された」と強調。現在も裁判が続くケリー被告について「３年も（司法の）人質にされている。ケリー被告が逮捕されるのであれば、多くの他の日本人幹部も逮捕されるべきだ」と日本の司法制度を批判した。（2021/12/06-21:34）

Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn on Monday asserted the innocence of Greg Kelly, who was a close aide and is currently on trial in Japan for allegedly helping Ghosn hide his compensation.
   Speaking at an online press conference hosted by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Ghosn, who fled to Lebanon in late 2019 while on bail awaiting trial in Japan over his alleged financial misconduct, said, "I think he (Kelly) is innocent."
   "He is paying with three years of his life (on trial and being) held hostage in Japan," Ghosn said, adding that Kelly, 65, former Nissan representative director, "was arrested on a bogus charge."
   If Kelly is guilty, "then many other Japanese people (who served as Nissan executives) should be in prison with him," Ghosn fumed, criticizing Japan's legal system.
   Ghosn, 67, said that Nissan's current financial situation "is not my problem anymore."