Takashi Takano, one of Carlos Ghosn's Japanese lawyers, said this Saturday on his blog that he felt "betrayed" by his client's flight to Lebanon, but admits to understanding the gesture of the ex-leader. “At first I was very angry. I felt betrayed, ”wrote Takashi Takano, claiming that he had known nothing about his client's escape plans.
"But anger gave way to something else when I remembered how he was treated by the country's justice system," he adds. "I can easily imagine that if other people with financial means, relationships and the capacity to act had the same experience, they would do the same thing or at least envisage it," he continues.
"I am no longer hostage to a biased judicial system"
Former boss of Renault and Nissan, Carlos Ghosn fled Sunday Japan, where he was on bail, after 130 days in prison pending trial for alleged financial embezzlement. Since the end of April 2019, the Franco-Lebanese-Brazilian has been living under house arrest in Tokyo, from which he could be absent for up to three days without special authorization from the courts. On the other hand, he was strictly forbidden to leave the country.
He also did not have the right to access the Internet, except in the offices of his lawyers. The judges also prohibited him from seeing or contacting his wife Carole, which Takashi Takano considered a "punishment" aimed solely at demoralizing him. After fleeing from Japan, Ghosn said, "I am no longer hostage to a biased Japanese justice system where the presumption of guilt prevails, where discrimination is widespread and where human rights are violated." The circumstances of his flight are still very vague. He is suspected of having boarded a private jet at Kansai Airport, near Osaka (west), to go to Istanbul, from where he then flew to Beirut with another aircraft.
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