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It was on New Year's Eve that a band was invited to Ghosn's residence in Tokyo to perform a New Year's performance for Ghosn, the bail guarantor under the 24-hour surveillance of the Japanese police. But in fact, this is a "rescue team" composed of former special warfare players and mercenaries. The real purpose of their trip is to help Ghosn escape.
At noon the next day after the performance, the absconding plan started rapidly. First of all, Ghosn escaped the surveillance of Japanese police alone, successfully left his residence in Tokyo and arrived at Roppongi Grand Hyatt Hotel.
After staying at the hotel for 1 hour, Ghosn appeared at Shinagawa Station in Tokyo. But at this time, there are already many people accompanying him. The next destination of this team is Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan.
They first took the Shinkansen from Shinagawa Station to Shinosaka Station, and then took a taxi to the hotel near Kansai Airport. When the motorcade reappeared in the surveillance screen of the airport, there were two large black audio equipment boxes next to the entourage, but Ghosn was gone.
Late at night on the 29th, two burly American passport holders and two audio equipment boxes appeared in the private jet reception room of Kansai Airport. Ghosn, who was restricted from leaving the country, was actually hidden in one of the audio equipment boxes. (This statement is not recognized by Ghosn himself at present)
Because the equipment box was too large to be detected by X-ray equipment, the two mysterious customers boarded a private plane to Istanbul with the audio equipment box and disappeared into the vast night sky. After that, Ghosn turned around and returned to Lebanon, one of Ghosn's three nationalities.
This seamless, fast and efficient escape was actually planned months ago. More than 10 people assisted Ghosn's rescue team. Among them, there are both former US special warfare players and senior agents.
This absconding, it can be said, not only humiliated the Japanese judiciary, but also shocked the whole world. However, if you know Ghosn's life experience, you will find that he is tenacious, not only this amazing absconding, but what happened before this incident? What's his beef with Nissan?
The whole story has to start with the decline of Nissan in the 1990s. Nissan is one of the earliest automobile companies in Japan. In the 1990s, Nissan was quite addicted to technology.
However, people are not as good as heaven. In 1990s, because of the Gulf War, the third oil crisis swept the world, and the price of crude oil soared. Nissan's hard-working high-performance and high-fuel consumption models immediately encountered a low sales volume. As a result, Nissan has suffered losses for seven consecutive years, with debts of $22 billion, and is about to go bankrupt.
When asking for help from many car companies is fruitless and bankrupt. Renault, which is much smaller than Nissan, threw $5.4 billion! I hope to acquire nearly 37% shares of Nissan. How can I save face when I am dying? It is very important to help first, and Nissan naturally agreed. At the same time, we cross-held shares with Renault and established the Renault-Nissan Alliance.
Renault, which completed the share acquisition, also did its best. In order to complete the re-emergence of Nissan, Renault sent its heavyweight, 45-year-old Carlos Ghosn, as the CEO of Nissan. You know, Ghosn had already made a big difference in the shopping mall before he entered Nissan. He is praised as a "cost killer" and a "business genius" by the global business community.
After entering Nissan, Ghosn cut the gordian knot. The first is to reduce the cost, reducing the original 1300 suppliers to 600. Secondly, the internal reform has greatly changed Nissan's lifelong employment and seniority management system. Finally, product reform. These three axes collapsed, and the daily output was less than three years, and it soon turned losses into profits.
Six years later, Nissan jumped to the second place in the Japanese auto industry. In 20 16, Ghosn led Nissan, and even acquired Mitsubishi automobile department in one fell swoop, and established Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance. In 20 17, the global sales volume of this alliance was 106 10000, which killed Volkswagen and GM and became the largest automobile alliance in the world. Anyway, it's not too much for me to describe Ghosn as tough.
In recognition of Ghosn's achievements, Emperor Akihito of Japan directly awarded him the Medal of Meritorious Service. And he himself has become the highest-paid professional manager in Japan, but his high income has also laid a curse for the future.
On the eve of Thanksgiving, Ghosn flew to Tokyo on 2018190, but on the same day, as soon as his plane landed at Haneda Airport, the special search department of Tokyo Prosecutor's Office immediately surrounded the plane and announced that Ghosn was detained on suspicion of concealing his salary. Ghosn's front foot was taken away, and Nissan's back foot held a press conference to announce that Chairman Ghosn would be dismissed. Four days later, Ghosn was dismissed as the chairman of Mitsubishi Motors Group.
Nissan President Hirohito Nishikawa, who has always been regarded as Ghosn's successor, took the lead in breaking the news, exposing Ghosn's behavior of concealing income, personal dictatorship, transferring personal investment losses to Nissan, and misappropriating public funds. Once a business genius and Nissan savior, he instantly became the target of public criticism.
After this arrest, Ghosn spent a long 108 days in prison. 65438+In March 2009, Ghosn was released on bail after paying bail of 654,380.5 billion yen. This is the thrilling escape plan we described at the beginning. Ghosn had an ambitious plan to merge Nissan, Mitsubishi and Renault into the world's largest automobile manufacturer. But this plan is now widely regarded as the root of Ghosn's arrest.
Under the corporate culture of Japan, the Japanese management team prefers Japanese to lead the company. No matter what brilliant achievements Ghosn has made, he will always be an outsider. Now, Ghosn has fled back to Lebanon, where he is regarded as a national hero, and started to fight back and accuse Nissan. How will the future develop? How will Nissan and Ghosn end this confrontation? Let's wait and see.
I'm sir Wei. See you next time ~ ~