France issues international arrest warrant for Ghosn
France has issued an international arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn, the disgraced auto tycoon who jumped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon in a sensational getaway, prosecutors told AFP on Friday.
The warrant was issued over 15 million euros ($16.3 million) in suspect payments between the Renault-Nissan alliance that Ghosn once headed and an Omani company, Suhail Bahwan Automobiles (SBA), said prosecutors in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
Ghosn, then chief of Nissan chief and head of an alliance between Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors, was detained in Japan in November 2018 on suspicion of financial misconduct along with his top aide, Greg Kelly. They both denied wrongdoing.
In December 2019 as he awaited trial, Ghosn staged an audacious getaway, being smuggled out of Japan in an audio-equipment case on a private jet.
Ghosn, who holds French, Lebanese and Brazilian passports, landed in Beirut, which has no extradition treaty with Japan.
He said he fled because he did not believe he would get a fair trial in Japan, where prosecutors have a nearly 99 percent conviction rate in cases that go to trial.
He also said that Nissan colluded with prosecutors to have him arrested because he wanted to deepen the Japanese firm's alliance with Renault.
22 April 2022, 14:36
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Poor Carlito… he’s pretty done…. Unless he becomes minister or president with diplomatic immunity.
24 April 2022, 10:41
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Yes, minister of industry and trasportation. We cab benefit from his expertise in modernizing our industry, introducing high-level automation and robotics, electrifying our transportation system and converting vehicles to electric, distributed solar level 3 charging systems covering all cities, monorail from Tripoli to Tyr with electric micro bus as feeder systems, creating mini-Silicon Valleys throughout Lebanon functioning as remote offices to all major corporations, establishing cost-benefit analysis and business plans to maximize the benefit from Lebanese education, creative spirit, financial expertise, international familiarity, and entrepreneurial exploring spirit inherited from Phoenician times.
