The final traces of Carlos Ghosn were all but erased from Nissan today.

An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, attended by 4,119 people, approved all the resolutions to discharge Ghosn as a director, discharge Greg Kelly as a director and confirm Jean-Dominique Senard as a director.

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Nissan Motor named Renault’s new chairman Senard as a company director during a board meeting in February.

The French automaker is Nissan’s largest shareholder with a 43.6% stake while Nissan owns 15% of Renault.

Senard had moved from his position as chairman of French tyre manufacturer Michelin to replace Ghosn as chairman of Renault, following the latter’s resignation after he was arrested in Japan last November over allegations of financial malpractice.

Ghosn, who had been out on bail after months in custody, was arrested again last week – as Renault’s board cut his pay and pension – a day after Ghosn himself promised, via a brief Twitter statement, to tell his side of the story on Thursday.

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Prosecutors then convinced a Tokyo court to detain him for 10 days until 14 April for further questioning.

Nissan today confirmed earlier announcements saying it “sees building the best possible corporate governance structure as an urgent task and is working on swift implementation of a three statutory-committee format (nomination, compensation and audit).

“In addition, Nissan is working with Alliance partners Renault and Mitsubishi Motors to stabilise the Alliance, and through proactive leveraging of Alliance benefits, further stabilise the company’s operations.”