His business dealings began to sour soon after the financial crisis hit, and regulators say that from the moment he took over Proton, he began looting it to prop up flagging operations.
But latecomers to the restructuring game, such as Mitsubishi Motors, the car company recently rescued by DaimlerChrysler, and Shiseido, a cosmetics company, have fallen into the red (in Shiseido's case, for the first time in 55 years).Overall, operating profits appear to be growing at a faster pace than sales, suggesting that companies may at last be turning round their flagging operations.
Tesco will invest £1bn in its UK business this year in an attempt to revive its flagging domestic operation.
Agent Mensch is a classic false flag operation to make Brexit supporters look like deranged obsessives".
In Russia the state-controlled tabloid press is telling its readers the Charlie Hebdo attack was a false-flag operation by the CIA.
Uncensored Magazine's spot runs along similarly hysterical lines, screaming MARTIAL LAW UPDATE, and WHAT YOUR DOCTOR WILL NEVER TELL YOU, and WAS FUKUSHIMA A FALSE FLAG OPERATION?
It is also vulnerable to trolling or gaming the system; users could spam real articles with fake tags, known as a "false flag" operation.
The most prominent of these suggests that the US government set it up as a "false flag" operation – an attack whereby a government stages a secret operation and acts as the victim while attacking its own people.
This was an especially popular critique after the Ghouta attack, when many Assad supporters claimed that the rebels had gassed themselves, in a "false flag" operation to hoodwink the international community into intervening to remove Assad.
The shooting of two Las Vegas police officers on Sunday morning at CiCi's pizza place was a "false flag" operation staged by the US government, according to Alex Jones, the talk radio host, conspiracy theorist and founder of the website InfoWars.
