Carlos Ghosn’s wife says his escape from Japan was ’beautiful surprise’

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Jan 09, 2020: Carole Ghosn, the wife of the fugitive former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, has insisted she had no idea about his plan to flee Japan and was surprised when he arrived to join in with her festive celebrations in Beirut.

 

Her comments were published hours before the 65-year-old executive was due to give a press conference in Beirut detailing his flight from Japan on 29 December, where he had been awaiting trial on multiple counts of financial misconduct, which he denies.

Speculation over how he managed to bypass tight bail conditions has ranged from reports of him hiding in a musical instrument case to boarding a bullet train.

In her first interview since the escape Carole Ghosn, a Lebanese-born fashion designer who had been based in New York, told Le Parisien: “I didn’t know about anything. I was in Beirut with my children to celebrate Christmas. Someone called me, saying: ‘I’ve got a surprise for you.’

“It was the most beautiful surprise of my life. We met at my parents’ apartment. I held Carlos very tightly in my arms for at least five whole minutes before I could even speak.”

She said she “never doubted my husband for a second” and repeated the family’s assertion that he had been the victim of a “coup” by former colleagues opposed to his plans to deepen the alliance between Nissan and the French carmaker Renault. She called him “the victim of an industrial plot and the war between Renault and Nissan”.

She said leaving Japan “was his only possible choice” as he was being kept in conditions aimed at “dehumanising him”.


Ghosn is arrested by Japanese police at a Tokyo airport upon arrival in his private jet. This follows the arrest hours before of Nissan board member Greg Kelly, a key ally of Ghosn’s. Both are sent to a detention centre in Tokyo. Nissan and Mitsubishi say they will both remove Ghosn as chairman.

Prosecutors add to the charges against Ghosn and Kelly, who are accused of underreporting Ghosn’s income over five years to 2015. They are are rearrested on allegations of understating Ghosn’s income for three more years to March 2018.

Ghosn is re-arrested on allegations of aggravated breach of trust, accused of shifting personal investment losses to Nissan in 2008. The legal team for Kelly, who suffers from spinal stenosis and needs surgery, requests his release on bail, which is granted on 24 December after he pays 70 million yen (£507,025) in cash.


Courtesy:Yahoo.com