Tokyo:
Nissan Motor failed on Tuesday to nominate a successor to Carlos Ghosn as chairman of the carmaker in the wake of his arrest and dismissal for alleged financial misconduct last month,
Kyodo News said.
Ghosn could remain in detention until the end of the year because Tokyo prosecutors plan to rearrest him on a fresh claim of understating his income, the Sankei newspaper reported earlier on Tuesday.
A three-member panel of external Nissan directors put off a decision on recommending a replacement for the jailed Ghosn, Kyodo News said, without citing sources for its information. The carmaker did not immediately reply to a request for a comment on the report.
Ghosn's arrest to face accusations has triggered new attempts by Nissan to weaken
Renault's control of their Franco-Japanese alliance.
Ghosn, 64, was the architect of the alliance and one of the best known figures in the car industry.
Nissan has tasked former trade and industry official Masakazu Toyoda, retired Renault SA executive Jean-Baptiste Duzan and race car driver Keiko Ihara with the selection of a new chairman, which is to be submitted to the rest of the board at their next meeting on Dec. 17. Changes to the board must be approved by shareholders.
Ghosn has been detained in Tokyo since his Nov. 19 arrest on suspicion of conspiring with former Nissan Representative Director Greg Kelly to understate his compensation by about half of the actual 10 billion yen ($88 million), over five years from 2010. Tokyo authorities on Friday extended their detention until the maximum llegations, which public broadcaster
NHK has said he has denied. Calls to Ghosn's lawyer, Motonari Otsuru, at his office went unanswered.