Executives

How Carlos Ghosn became the world’s most famous fugitive

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According to numerous reports, Ghosn plans to use his freedom to assail the Japanese legal system and to do everything he can to publicly discredit the charges against him. His first salvo will come at a press conference he plans to hold in Beirut on Wednesday. (AUTOMOTIVE NEWS ILLUSTRATION)
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Bloomberg
January 07, 2020 02:26 PM

On Christmas Eve, Carlos Ghosn walked into his lawyers’ modest office in central Tokyo to speak to his wife, Carole, for only the second time since April. During his long odyssey through the Japanese legal system -- several arrests, more than 100 days in solitary confinement, seemingly endless interrogations, and, after his release on bail, intrusive 24-hour surveillance -- Ghosn had been forced to accept many humiliations.

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