It’s a twist that, if officially established, looks like a dramatic blow. According to daily information The echoes and several press reports from Lebanon, later confirmed to the AFP by officials of the country, Carlos Ghosn left Tokyo where he had been under house arrest since April 25, after staying there for 129 days.
The ex-CEO of Renault-Nissan, who was to appear before Japanese justice in 2020, notably for financial embezzlement, “arrived Sunday at Beirut airport,” said a Lebanese security source to Agence France Presse. , to whom another official in the country confirmed this information adding “that the way in which he left Japan is unclear”. According to the newspaper al-Jumhuriya who first revealed the information, Carlos Ghosn flew to Beirut on a plane from Turkey.
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If it is true, “this is absolutely astounding news when you know the control to which it was subject”, reacted Monday evening on LCI Régis Arnaud, correspondent of Figaro in Tokyo and author of the book The Fall, the secrets of Carlos Ghosn. “If he managed to reach Lebanon, it is obviously to escape from Japanese justice which he had little confidence in,” he said (interview to be found in the video at the head of this article).
Arrested in November 2018 when he landed in Tokyo, the deposed boss, who has French, Brazilian and Lebanese nationalities, is facing four charges in Japan. He is suspected of having failed to declare a large part of his income to the stock exchange authorities between 2010 and 2015.
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