Two-and-a-half years after Carlos Ghosn¡¯s arrest, Nissan Motor Co. is still struggling to emerge from the scandalized affair involving the former chairman and chief executive officer.

Shareholders at the automaker¡¯s annual meeting Tuesday repeatedly questioned executives about the events surrounding Ghosn¡¯s 2018 arrest, suggesting that Nissan was perhaps better off during the former auto executive¡¯s era of management.

¡°Under Ghosn¡¯s leadership there were a lot of good things. There were a lot of beautiful flowers within Nissan,¡± one said during questioning at the company¡¯s headquarters in Yokohama, pointing to a period four years ago when the three-way alliance of Nissan, Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. topped global sales volumes.