New Year's soap opera is to Carlos Ghosn. A film escape, that of the Brazilian manager of Lebanese origins, CEO of the Nissan-Renault automotive group until November 2018, when he was arrested in Japan for financial offenses. On December 30, Ghosn, who was on probation in his apartment in Tokyo (after having also served a few months in prison between 2018 and 2019), managed to escape and to daringly reach Lebanon. According to initial reports, the manager was helped in his escape by a private security company, which allegedly hid him in a case for musical instruments. Perhaps that of a double bass.
But now his case has become an international thriller: while the police are searching the apartment in Tokyo, France has already made it known that it will not extradite Ghosn if he arrives in the country. Meanwhile, Turkey has opened an investigation into the passage of the manager, who would have passed through Istanbul to reach Lebanon: the Lebanese media reported that Ghosn had landed at Beirut airport with a private jet from Turkey, and according to the media Turks some people have already been arrested and interrogated.
However, Ghosn's great escape will not ensure his salvation, quite the contrary. Judicial issues are pending over the manager not only in Japan (which in any case has an extradition agreement with several Western countries, including the United States), where he was under investigation on very serious charges, such as that of having paid in the black, taking them directly from the balance sheet of Nissan, a further 76 million euros in addition to the regular salary, and of having withdrawn from the coffers of the company 14,7 million dollars to be allocated to a Saudi billionaire friend, for absolutely private matters.
In fact, Ghosn is also troubled by Nissan itself, which has filed a lawsuit against him to recover the stolen goods, while the manager also risks arrest in France itself, where is under investigation for the financing of her luxurious wedding in the Château de Versailles, in 2016, and for some payments it allegedly ordered from Renault.
