Assisted Nissan's former director Ghosn to abscond, two Americans refused extradition application rejected

　　China News Service, January 29. According to Reuters, on the 28th local time, the Boston Federal Court rejected the application of two men who refused to be extradited to Japan. They were suspected of assisting Nissan's former chairman Ghosn to abscond.

　　According to reports, on the 28th local time, Boston District Court Judge Talwani rejected the extradition application of Michael Taylor and his son Peter Taylor, a veteran of the US Army Special Forces.

The picture shows Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor Company.

　　Prior to this, the US State Department had agreed to transfer the two extraditions to the Japanese authorities. Judge Tarwani's ruling cleared the way for this extradition application.

　　Judge Tarwani said: "Although the prison conditions in Japan may be terrible, this is not a sufficient reason for refusing extradition."

　　She also stated that the United States "fully determined that the crimes charged by Taylor and his son were extraditable crimes."

　　According to reports, Ghosn and the Japanese Embassy in Washington did not immediately comment on the ruling of the US court.

　　Ghosn was born in Brazil in 1954 and holds passports from Brazil, France, and Lebanon.

In November 2018, Ghosn was arrested in Japan on suspicion of underreporting huge personal income and embezzling company funds for private expenses and other economic problems.

Ghosn himself denied all allegations.

In April 2019, Ghosn was arrested again.

Later, the court agreed to Ghosn's bail, but asked him not to leave Japan.

　　The Japanese court was originally scheduled to hear Ghosn's case in April 2020, but he fled Japan in December 2019 and arrived in Lebanon, shelling the Japanese judiciary for "unfairness".

In January 2020, Japan issued a new arrest warrant against Ghosn.

　　Japanese prosecutors pointed out that in December 2019, Ghosn, with the assistance of Taylor and his son, hid in a large box, escaped from Japan through a high-level cargo pipeline used by a private plane at Kansai Airport in Japan and returned to his hometown of Lebanon.

Lebanon and Japan have not signed an extradition treaty.

The prosecutor also pointed out that Taylor and his son helped Ghosn escape and received a compensation of 1.3 million US dollars.

　　The Tokyo Public Prosecutor’s Office of Japan formally assisted Ghosn’s absconding case in January 2020, issuing arrest warrants against Taylor and his son and another.