A Tokyo court has convicted two Americans, a father and a son, who helped Carlos Ghosn, the former CEO of the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi Automobile Alliance, leave Japan without permission at the end of 2019, MTI reports.
Retired commando Michael Taylor, 60, was given a more severe sentence, two years in prison, while his son Peter Taylor, 28, was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison for his involvement in a high-profile case that unpleasantly affected the Japanese authorities. Both previously سابق plead guilty. According to the indictment, Michael and Peter Taylor aided Ghosn in escaping justice. US authorities extradited both to Japan on February 2.
Ghosn was the leader of an automobile alliance formed with Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors. After an impressive career, he resigned under disgraceful circumstances in 2019 after Japanese authorities accused him of paying his financial losses to Nissan and redirecting overseas transfers to the company to his own accounts. Ghosn has expressed his innocence.
Ghosn, who was under house arrest in Japan, mysteriously fled the country in December 2019 with the help of a private security firm. A band went to Ghosn’s apartment in Tokyo, apparently to play at a Christmas party. Later, the businessman was smuggled out of his apartment in a double box. He supposedly took a bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka, Kansas International Airport, where he flew by private jet to Turkey and then to Lebanon, where he spent his childhood. There is no extradition agreement between Lebanon and Japan, and the International Police (Interpol) cannot oblige Beirut to detain Ghosn.
According to the prosecution, Michael and Peter Taylor met the company’s manager at a Tokyo hotel after the escape, where he escaped directly from house arrest. From there, the tools were transported to Osaka with their tools, then smuggled on a private plane and transported to Turkey after bypassing customs. Prosecutors said the two men received $1.3 million to help escape.
