Arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn's wife is "pathetic," family says

In April of last year, Carole Ghosn, the wife of fugitive Carlos Ghosn, denied during a statement in Tokyo District Court to meet a person whom she did know and with whom she had previously exchanged messages.

This, according to the Tokyo Prosecutor's Office, constitutes perjury, which is why it issued a 53-year-old woman's arrest warrant, Kyodo reported.

Carole Ghosn would be in Lebanon with her husband.

Ghosn is accused of having Nissan's U.S. subsidiary pay a total of $10 million to an Omani distributor between July 2017 and July 2018; about $5 million was transferred to a Lebanese investment firm.

The person Carole said she didn't know was an omani dealer's executive and sent the money to the Lebanese firm. The money would have subsequently been transferred to a Carole-owned company.

The prosecution confiscated the woman's phone and found on her phone that she contacted the man several times via a chat app after Ghosn's arrest.

In one of the messages she suggested that she meet so as not to contradict her statements about the case.

The family, through a spokesperson, called the arrest warrant "pathetic" and recalled that Carole voluntarily traveled to Japan to testify on the case and that she left the country without charge, according to France 24.

Ghosn is scheduled to hold a press conference in Lebanon on Wednesday. (International Press)