Defiant Ghosn pins hopes on French probes to clear his name

Carlos Ghosn in Dbayeh, north of Beirut, Lebanon (Hussein Malla/AP)

Car magnate-turned-fugitive Carlos Ghosn is campaigning to clear his name, and hopes a visit by French investigators to his home in exile in Lebanon will be his first real opportunity to defend himself since the bombshell arrest that transformed him from a visionary to a prisoner overnight.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the embattled former chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance dissected his legal troubles in Japan, France and the Netherlands.