American Greg Kelly, a former Nissan Motor Co. executive who worked for the automaker's then Chairman Carlos Ghosn, was given a suspended sentence by the Tokyo District Court on Thursday for underreporting Ghosn's pay in financial reports.
In his ruling of a six-month sentence suspended for three years, Presiding Judge Kenji Shimotsu said that Ghosn, 67, had "unpaid remuneration" that should have been disclosed according to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law. Former Nissan Representative Director Kelly, 65, was found guilty of a part of the charges related to violating that law, but acquitted of most other charges.
