The acceptance of Ghosn’s request for bail, his third, came a day after one of his lawyers said he was confident the auto executive would gain his release.The newly hired attorney, Junichiro Hironaka, is famous for winning acquittals in Japan, a nation where the conviction rate is 99 percent.
Hironaka said Monday that he had offered new ways to monitor Ghosn after his release, such as camera surveillance.
Hironaka also questioned the grounds for Ghosn’s arrest, calling the case “very peculiar”, and suggesting the case could have been dealt with as an internal company matter.”We have put in a request that we believe is convincing”, Hironaka told reporters at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo Monday.
The billion yen bail set by the court is relatively high but not the highest ever in Japan.
