In a move that may further extend his stay in custody following his arrest last month, Carlos Ghosn, the ousted Nissan Motor Co. chairman, was served a fresh warrant for aggravated breach of trust against the automaker on Friday.
The arrest, his third, is a dramatic turnaround as he was seen to be nearing release from the Tokyo Detention House after a court rejected a request from prosecutors Thursday to extend his detention over earlier allegations of understating his income.
Ghosn is now facing a fresh claim that he had Nissan bear responsibility to cover his private investment losses of some ¥1.85 billion ($16 million) incurred around October 2008 and inflicting damage on the automaker by having it deposit a total of $14.7 million on four occasions between June 2009 and March 2012 into a related bank account.