Carlos Ghosn’s Japanese Lawyers Quit After Former Nissan Chief Absconds

Carlos Ghosn’s Japanese Lawyers Quit After Former Nissan Chief Absconds
unichiro Hironaka, chief lawyer of the former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn, attends a news conference at Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on April 9, 2019. Issei Kato/Reuters-File
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TOKYO—Japanese attorneys representing Carlos Ghosn, including lead lawyer Junichiro Hironaka, quit on Thursday following the former Nissan chief’s flight to Lebanon from Japan, where he had been fighting financial misconduct charges.

In an emailed statement, Hironaka said that everyone involved in the case at his practice had resigned. A spokeswoman there declined to give a reason.