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News The Carlos Ghosn saga

Poor guy, He'll probably only have a few tens of millions left to his name.
 

I agree. Without the political clout, he's toasted french bread.
 
Carlos Ghosn finally granted bail!




Yesterday Ghosn's family submitted a dossier to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Geneva to outline human rights vilations.

 
The only thing I know for sure is "I don't know". But I sure have a feeling this all stinks. AFAIK, Ghosn's Japanese is not remotely on a level he could do any of this on his own and not being found out long ago. And also you know well that Japanese businessmen have been getting away with all this for ages and will continue to do so. So yeah, this really smells like a case of " Get the gaijin".
 
I wonder if they will return his bail. It's a shame he's been deprived of another opportunity to share his side of the story.

 
When he says that he won't be broken, I actually believe him - he's already survived and is still fighting after over 100 days in detention.
 
Its a lost cause for him.
No hope
He did something wrong and illegal, but what it is , i'm not sure yet.
 
So his wife split to the USA.
Not a wise thing to do. The US can seize her assets if illegally gained.
 
So his wife split to the USA.
Not a wise thing to do. The US can seize her assets if illegally gained.

It's quite helpful to hold multiple nationalities. Obviously, she flew to France with the help of the French ambassador who accompanied her until she boarded her plane.
 
It has got a bit more quiet on the case, I guess prosecution will be working hard to nail Mr Ghosn who has been released on bail for a second time on 26 April (500m JPY).

Meanwhile - and I cannot state this without a trace of schadenfreude - Nissan does not seem to be doing so well:

 
I always thought nissan used cheap automobile paints.
 
It appears that Mr Ghosn has left for/escaped to Lebanon. How is that even possible without the involvement of the Japanese authorities? Was he allowed to escape? I'm looking forward to his press conferences next year.



 
I actually reckon the Japanese government let him go to avoid it going to trial. They must know it was making them look bad and damaged the country's image internationally. They'd rather get rid of him to stop any chance of him forcing them to reform the system.
 
I heard somewhere that he was whisked out of the country by private jet. The jet probably picked him up at an airport other than Haneda or Narita, where getting on a plane without going through departure-immigration would be easy. (When you have millions, I guess doing something like this is easy.) He was probably able to get off the jet in Lebanon without his passport.
 
It seems that even his legal team was caught by surprise:

https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Ghosn's-lawyer-says-he-is-stunned-his-client-left-country


Sadly, this will set another precedent for Japanese prosecutors to consider foreign nationals involved in court cases a "flight risk", staged or not.
 
Yes, but you just can't leave Japan so easily. Military airplane, Yokota Air Base.
 
Obviously, it was Kansai International Airport.

 
I think this might be used as an xcuse to implement some harsh security measures for the Olympics though, it's not like the Japanese government isn't against using gaijin as an excuse to do such things
 
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