Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn took a swipe at his old employers in a newspaper interview on Sunday, calling the Renault and Nissan results "pathetic," driven as much by a lack of joint leadership than the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ghosn, who was also the chairman of Mitsubishi Motors Corp., was arrested in Japan in late 2018 on charges of underreporting his salary and using company funds for personal use — charges he denies. He fled to Lebanon from Japan while on bail.
"There is a market confidence problem in the alliance. Personally, I find the results of Nissan and Renault pathetic. The two companies are looking inwards. There is no longer any real mix of management between Renault and Nissan, but a distrustful distance," he told the Le Parisien newspaper.