Al-Jazeera obtained the indictment prepared by the Attorney General of the Republic in Istanbul for smuggling Lebanese businessman Carlos Ghosn from Osaka, Japan, to Beirut via Istanbul last December.
The indictment, which is published for the first time, includes seven Turks working in the field of air transport suspected of covering up the smuggling process, and four captains and two hostesses, in addition to an employee of a Turkish air carrier, were imprisoned on suspicion of taking bribes and facilitating the smuggling of Ghosn.
The Prosecutor indicated that Ghosn was hidden inside a box of musical instruments, as the prosecutor noticed in the stores of the transport company that there was a box lined with sponge and holes for ventilation, that is, it is fit to transport a person. It is also larger than the other boxes that the plane was carrying.
Ghosn had denied in a previous interview with "Al-Jazeera" that any international intelligence agencies had helped him escape from Japan, and said that his escape was a risk that one would only risk if he reached a conviction that it was impossible to obtain a fair trial.
The Lebanese businessman faces four counts of financial misconduct: the first two charges of not reporting his compensation in the company's official deposits of tens of millions of dollars, which investigators say he intends to eventually arrest.
As for the third and fourth charges, they are related to violating trust. Prosecutors accused him of incorrectly benefiting from Nissan’s relations with partners in the Arab world, including one of the cases in which the company’s five million dollars were transferred to its own ends through a group of car dealers in the Sultanate. Amman.
Ghosn denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the plaintiffs claim for compensation had been reported, and was only hypothetical, and that he had not misused the April money.
He said he also settled a civil complaint from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, which he claimed did not disclose his compensation adequately, and agreed to a $ 1 million fine without accepting the agency's allegations.