Carlos Ghosn case: the two Americans who had helped his escape imprisoned in Japan

Japan, March 2: According to Japanese media, the two Americans, the Taylor father and son, who helped Carlos Ghosn leave Japan, are back to stand trial.

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Incarcerated in the United States for seven months, Michael Taylor and his son Peter, the two Americans accused of having helped Carlos Ghosn, the former boss of Renault-Nissan, to flee Japan hidden in a box of audio equipment arrived at Tokyo after having exhausted all possible remedies to avoid being extradited from the United States.

Japanese justice wants to judge them for having allowed, according to it, "the escape of a criminal" (hear Carlos Ghosn) at the end of December 2019.

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with our correspondent in Tokyo,

Frédéric Charles

The lawyers of Michael Taylor, a former member of the American special forces, and his son Peter will have done everything to prevent the extradition of their clients in Japan.

Claiming that they risked being "tortured" when they got off the plane in Tokyo.

The two Americans will be held in the same Tokyo detention center where Carlos Ghosn was held and interrogated for 130 days.

Which will complain of having been subjected to "moral and physical torture intended to break him".

American justice, up to the Supreme Court, rejected the arguments of the lawyers of the two men.

Michael Taylor and his son have never denied their participation in the

incredible escape of Carlos Ghosn 

in December 2019. While on bail, he had left Osaka airport hidden in a large trunk.

The two Americans face a maximum sentence of four years in prison.

In Turkey, two pilots who were at the controls of a private jet transporting the Franco-Lebanese-Brazilian to Lebanon via Istanbul have already been sentenced to four years in prison.

To read also

: Leak of Carlos Ghosn: a year later, a still sprawling affair

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