(Bloomberg) -- One of Carlos Ghosn’s top lawyers in Japan said he plans to resign since he doesn’t have a client to defend.

Junichiro Hironaka will go ahead with the resignation once he gets through to his fugitive client, he said in a recent interview.

Ghosn, who was facing two trials in Japan, stunningly fled the country just over a week ago. Japanese authorities are under immense pressure to find out how one of the country’s most high-profile suspects in recent years escaped despite being under round-the-clock surveillance.

Prior to his escape, the former head of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA leveraged his fame to draw unwanted attention to Japan’s legal system, criticizing what he described as vast freedoms for prosecutors to force bogus confessions out of suspects.

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