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The meetings, first reported by French newspaper Le Figaro, come
a day before Japanese prosecutors are expected to indict the
Renault boss and former Nissan chairman on more charges.
Nissan declined to comment on the meeting, and a Renault
spokesman did not return calls and messages seeking comment.
Both boards would be updated on the situation, people with
knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Nissan directors might discuss ongoing efforts to improve
compliance controls in the wake of the scandal, while the
Renault meeting would be informal, they said.
Ghosn and senior Nissan director Greg Kelly have been charged in
Japan with failing to disclose $43 million in additional
compensation for 2010-15 that Ghosn had arranged to be paid
later.
Both men deny that the deferred compensation agreements were
illegal or required disclosure.
Ghosn, who remains in detention, is likely to be formally
charged with aggravated breach of trust for temporarily
transferring personal investment losses to Nissan in 2008, and
for understating his compensation for three more years through
2018, a person with knowledge of the matter said earlier.
A member of Ghosn's Japan-based legal team earlier told Reuters
that Ghosn did not attend an interrogation session scheduled for
Thursday due to a fever, and that he had been advised by a
detention center physician to rest.
Whereas Nissan ousted Ghosn as chairman within days of his
arrest, Renault has so far maintained him as chairman and CEO,
deepening tensions within their 20-year-old carmaking alliance.
(Reporting by Laurence Frost and Naomi Tajitsu; Additional
repoorting by Gilles Guillaume; Editing by Edmund Blair)
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