Japanese automaker Nissan has a whole mess of governance failures it needs to fix, according to the findings of a recently published special committee report.

In November 2018, Carlos Ghosn was dismissed from his chairman role, following his arrest by Japanese prosecutors for engaging in financial misconduct. Immediately preceding his arrest, Nissan had issued a statement announcing that it had been conducting an internal investigation “over the past several months” regarding misconduct involving Ghosn and representative director Greg Kelly.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...