Carlos Ghosn — right to flee Japan’s ‘justice’ or a financial fugitive?
The former head of Nissan has freed himself from the physical shackles of Japan, but now he is also free to name names and dish the dirt
02 January 2020 - 11:26
London/Hong Kong — Carlos Ghosn has spent more than a year trapped in a Japanese legal odyssey that’s transfixed the automotive world and thrown his life into chaos. Now, having pulled off a daring escape from Japan to Lebanon, he’s an international fugitive.
But the executive is also free to speak his mind fully, without legal filtering, for the first time since his surprise arrest on the tarmac at Haneda airport back in November 2018. And this much seems likely: the former head of Nissan Motor and Renault has stories to tell and scores to settle...
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