Nissan ex-chief Ghosn detained again

Japanese prosecutors arrested ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn again on Thursday on suspicion of trying to enrich himself at the automaker's expense, in a stunning twist that media reports linked to payments to an .

The arrest, which legal experts described as a highly unusual in Japan for someone who has already been released on bail, marks yet another dramatic moment in the once-feted executive's fall from grace.

Tokyo prosecutors said Ghosn had caused Nissan Motor Co. five million U.S. dollars in losses over a two-and-a-half-year period to July 2018, in breach of his legal duties to the company and with the goal of personal gain.

The Kyodo news agency reported that the losses involved the shifting of funds through a dealer in Oman to the account of a company Ghosn effectively owned. The agency did not cite any sources.

"My arrest this morning is outrageous and arbitrary," Ghosn said in a statement emailed by a U.S.-based spokesman.

More than a dozen officials from the Tokyo prosecutor's office visited his residence early on Thursday and asked him to submit to questioning, broadcaster NHK said. A silver van believed to be carrying Ghosn later left the residence, it said.

The arrest comes a day after Ghosn pledged on Twitter to hold a news conference on April 11 to "tell the truth" about the allegations against him.

Ghosn's lawyer, Junichiro Hironaka, called the latest arrest "inappropriate" and said he would hold a media conference in Tokyo later Thursday.

(CGTN)