Ousted Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn's legal problems are getting worse as Tokyo prosecutors hit him with 2 new financial misconduct charges

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• Tokyo prosecutors indicted former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn on two new charges of financial misconduct on Friday.
• Ghosn was charged with aggravated breach of trust for temporarily transferring personal investment losses to Nissan in 2008, and for understating his compensation for three years, from 2015 to 2017, according to his lawyer, Motonari Otsuru.
• Otsuru said his team was applying for bail to release Ghosn, who has been detained since his Nov. 19 arrest.
• Ghosn had already been charged for under-reporting his income for the five years through 2015.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo prosecutors indicted former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn on two new charges of financial misconduct on Friday, his lawyer said, adding to the legal challenges for the once-feted auto executive.

Ghosn was charged with aggravated breach of trust for temporarily transferring personal investment losses to Nissan in 2008, and for understating his compensation for three years, from 2015 to 2017, showed a statement from his lawyer, Motonari Otsuru.

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