Carlos Ghosn

Japanese automaker Nissan will sell its Russian assets, including a factory in Saint Petersburg, to the Russian government, the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Moscow said yesterday.

The announcement comes after Nissan suspended production at the plant in Russia's second city in March, shortly after Moscow sent troops to Ukraine.

French authorities have issued an international arrest warrant for disgraced former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who has lived in Lebanon since his daring getaway from Japan in 2019.

Nissan on Feb. 8 hiked its annual net profit forecast again on strong interim results, aiming to weather the global chip shortage as it shifts focus to electric vehicles.

The Japanese car giant now expects yearly net profit to March 2022 of 205 billion yen ($1.8 billion), having already tripled its annual profit outlook in November to 180 billion yen.

A Turkish court on Feb. 24 handed down jail terms to three people who were accused of aiding former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn's escape from Japan to Lebanon via an airport in Istanbul.

A private cargo company executive and two pilots, who were charged with "migrant smuggling", got four years and two months in prison each.

Turkish prosecutors on Jan. 20 sought the maximum possible 12 years in prison each for a Turkish private airline official and two pilots accused of smuggling the former Nissan Motor Co. chairman out of Japan, Turkey's state news agency reported.

Japanese authorities on Jan. 30 issued warrants for a former U.S. special forces soldier and two other men on suspicion of smuggling former Nissan Motor Co boss Carlos Ghosn out of Japan.

Warrants were issued for former U.S. Green Beret Michael Taylor and two other men, George-Antoine Zayek and Peter Taylor, prosecutors said in a statement.

Lebanon will not extradite the former chief executive of Nissan - Carlos Ghosn in Japan, where he is facing a series of financial charges, Nikkei Asian Review agency said on Wednesday, citing a Lebanese court official.

Images of two men accused of helping fugitive businessman Carlos Ghosn escape via an Istanbul airport published by Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency.

The security camera images, first made public on Jan. 16, show Michael Taylor and George Antoine Zayek at passport control in Istanbul Airport.

The Japanese car manufacturer Nissan Motor has described as the reports that it is considering breaking its alliance with Renault as completely false BNR reported.

"Nissan is in no way considering dissolving the Alliance," the Japanese carmaker said in a statement Tuesday

Japanese investigators have sent a request to Interpol to include the wife of the former Nissan carmaker boss Carlos Ghosn on the international wanted list, the agency said.