Nissan Motor Co. will go bankrupt within two to three years, Carlos Ghosn told a defense attorney during more than 10 hours of interviews before the auto executive skipped bail and left Japan.
The former chairman and chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA made the prediction last year in a series of conversations about his arrest and prosecution, said Nobuo Gohara, a former prosecutor who also is a vocal critic of Japan's justice system.
"He told me that Nissan will probably go bankrupt within two to three years," said Gohara, who held a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday to discuss his conversations with the fugitive former auto titan. Ghosn didn't offer detailed reasons for why Nissan would run into difficulties, according to the lawyer.