Carlos Ghosn was the
CEO of Renault from 2005 to 2019 and
CEO of Nissan from 2017 to 2018. November of the year 2018, Japanese justice arrested him because they suspected him of concealing income by having manipulated bank accounts of
Nissan.
A month later, he was charged with embezzlement and use of funds from the Japanese company.
Nissan (of which he is the
CEO) for personal purposes such as his wedding in Versailles among others. He is detained in Japan.
He finally managed to escape from Japan hidden in a crate. The private jet which took off from OSAKA made a stopover at the airport
Istanbul Ataturk to finish his race
Lebanon, a country from which he holds a passport. THE
Lebanon has already been warned that he will refuse the extradition of
Carlos Ghosn.
What consequences for Carlos Ghosn after his escape?
Lebanese media outlet MTV reported that Carlos Ghosn had fled his residence in Tokyo alone. And this, with the help of a paramilitary group disguised as a band of musicians. Indeed, according to information, the former CEO of the
Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance 65-year-old allegedly hid in a large musical instrument trunk which was then transported to the local airport.
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This is how he flew to Turkey at Istanbul's Ataturk airport, before arriving in Lebanon by private jet. Lebanese media outlet MTV provided no evidence for this theory which, unsurprisingly, quickly spread across social media like wildfire.
Who helped Carlos Ghosn escape from Japan?
"I think I would recognize
Ghosn if I looked closely at his face, but we don't really look at people's faces," a security guard at the private terminal told the Reuters news agency.
“It would be harder to spot him if he was wearing a disguise or in a group.” Separately, Japanese media reports also say that there was no record in the country's immigration database of his departure from Japan
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However, Mr. Ghosn's wife,
Carole, told the news agency
Reuters that the information reporting the musical escape was "
fiction". She refused to provide details of her husband's escape.
But, offering yourself a disguise to escape from Japan is not a theory to be dismissed when you are called
Carlos Ghosn. In March 2019, in an effort to avoid journalists pursuing him, he left the prison disguised as a worker. He was quickly identified and his lawyer later apologized for the "amateur plan".
Three passports for the former CEO of Nissan and Renault?
Since Friday, questions remain about the documents used by
Carlos Ghosn to leave Japan, transit through Turkey and finally enter Lebanon,. In fact, the former
CEO of Renault holds three passports - Brazilian, French and Lebanese.
And his legal team maintains they were in possession of all of them when they left Japan. But we do not know if Mr.
Ghosn held duplicate passports; as businessmen are sometimes allowed to do. Indiscretions indicate that he perhaps held a diplomatic passport issued by the
Lebanon, although this remains to be confirmed.
If the French newspaper
The World believes that the ex-Nissan boss would have traveled with an identity card, other media report that he may have used a French passport or even false documents.
But, a spokesperson for Mr.
Ghosn told the Financial Times that he used a French passport to enter Lebanon, but would not reveal how he left Japan.
Ghadi Khoury, from the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the former Nissan boss entered the country with a French passport and a Lebanese identity card.
