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According to Japan's Kyodo News Agency, Carlos Ghosn attended the trial in Tokyo District Court at 10: 00 this morning. Carlos Ghosn denied all the charges in court.

Ghosn, 65, was charged with four counts; concealing salary and falsely reporting personal income between 2010 and 2014; financial misconduct in understatement of salary and income from 2015 to 2017; and suspected of transferring $5 million from Nissan to a Lebanese dealership. then transferred to the company led by the son and wife; serious violation of the trust deal is suspected of transferring 1.85 billion yen of personal losses to Nissan.

The Tokyo district attorney's office arrested Ghosn several times before submitting the indictment. Faced with the accusations that Ghosn spent 130 days in prison, the former Nissan executive called it a biased and distorted portrayal of him as a greedy dictator.

A spokesman for Nissan declined to comment on the trial, saying that Nissan's focus at this stage is to stabilize its operation and strengthen its management structure.

The Sankei Shimbun quoted Japanese lawyers as saying Thursday's hearing will focus on two charges of breach of trust. The hearing on June 24th focused on two counts of money laundering in violation of financial operations.

According to Japan's Criminal procedure Law, no new evidence can be submitted after the pretrial hearing. Judges may, at their own discretion, allow new evidence to be presented during the trial. The pre-trial hearing procedure also allows the prosecution and the defense to know in advance the potential strategies of each other when presenting the evidence. If convicted on four counts, Ghosn will be sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.

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