Former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who fled to Lebanon in the Middle East, was accused of smuggling a private jet to help him escape. The court sentenced the person to four years and two months in prison.
Former Chairman Ghosn fled from Japan to Lebanon via Turkey on a private jet of a Turkish commercial airline at the end of December on bail.
In a trial in Istanbul, Turkey, a total of seven people, including a former sales manager and four pilots of the airline and two flight attendants, were charged with smuggling former chairman Ghosn.
On the 24th, the court told three people, a former sales manager and two pilots who were in charge of flights from Japan to Turkey, "It is clear that Ghosn, a foreigner, was illegally carried from Japan." He pointed out and sentenced him to four years and two months in prison.
However, whether the remittance equivalent to about 33 million yen in Japanese yen transferred to the bank account of the former sales manager was a reward from the former chairman Ghosn, and the pilots were on board the former chairman Ghosn Details of the fact-finding, such as whether or not he knew it, were not disclosed.
The three intend to appeal the decision.
Meanwhile, the two pilots responsible for the flight from Turkey to Lebanon were acquitted, saying that carrying former Lebanese nationality President Ghosn to Lebanon was not a crime of stowaway.
A flight attendant on a flight from Japan to Turkey was also acquitted.
The charges were revoked for the flight attendants on the flight from Turkey to Lebanon, alleging that they were not guilty.