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Details On Carlos Ghosn's Escape From
God damn, this is a good story; it's adding some interesting and funny details about Ghosn hightailin' outta Dodge...[NY Post] - Nissan’s former CEO fled house arrest in Japan in a wild Hollywood-worthy plot ‐ allegedly using a team of mercenaries posing as musicians to smuggle him out of the country in an instrument case, reports said. Accused embezzler Carlos Ghosn then used a relay of private jets to flee all the way from Tokyo to his family’s heavily guarded pink mansion in Lebanon, a nation which does not have an extradition treaty with Japan. "I am now in Lebanon and will no longer be held hostage by a rigged Japanese justice system,’’ the defiant former auto honcho said in a statement Tuesday. "I have not fled justice. I have escaped injustice and political persecution.’’ The wealthy 65-year-old former auto honcho had been out on $14 million bail, confined to house arrest ‐ and under ’round-the-clock Japanese guard ‐ at his tony Tokyo apartment when he escaped Sunday. In a bizarre scheme allegedly orchestrated by his wife in the US, a group of ex-special forces soldiers posing as musicians specializing in a Gregorian band and toting music equipment strolled past Japanese security guards and entered the pad, according to the Lebanese news channel MTV. Ghosn, who stands at just under 5-foot-6, climbed into "one of the boxes intended for the transfer of musical instruments,’’ the news station said ‐ possibly a roughly 6-foot-tall double-base case. Related: Carlos Ghosn: 2019-12-31 Nissan ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn arrives in Lebanon, Carlos Ghosn: 2019-11-13 The US could end up running on gasoline forever, leaving electric vehicles to China and Europe Carlos Ghosn: 2018-11-24 Energy Firms Track Plunge in Oil, Asia Markets Temper Losses Posted by: Raj 2020-01-01 |
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