The financier Lex Greensill has told a court that senior managers at SoftBank “felt threatened” by his relationship with Masayoshi Son, the founder of the Japanese tech investor that pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into his specialist lender before its collapse.
Greensill said he travelled to Tokyo “often weekly” for in-person mentoring sessions with the billionaire founder, whom he dined with and referred to by the Japanese honorific “Son-san”.
