Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn to be held an extra 10 days in Tokyo

Ousted Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn has had his Tokyo imprisonment extended for another 10 days, Japanese media has reported.

The extension comes after a Tokyo District Court court approved a request from prosecutors to keep the 64-year-old for longer, according to the Nikkei Asian Review.

Ghosn has been held since 19 November on suspicion of financial misconduct.

Japanese authorities will be forced to file charges by 10 December or let him go.

Yesterday, he denied passing personal trading losses to Nissan, according to his lawyer after Japanese media reported he may have transferred losses of ¥1.7bn (£11.7m) from a derivatives contract to the company in 2008.

While Ghosn has acknowledged he consulted Nissan about the contract, he denies passing the losses to the firm, his lawyer Motonari Otsuru told Bloomberg.

The court also ruled that it would extend the detention of Greg Kelly, an ex-Nissan representative director arrested at the same time as Ghosn for alleged conspiracy, added the Nikkei.

Detention limits are 23 days for an arrest warrant served by police, according to Japanese law, while a warrant given by prosecutors is 22 days. But authorities are allowed to add further charges with new warrants.