China News Service, March 22. According to Agence France-Presse, on the 22nd local time, Tokyo prosecutors filed a lawsuit against a pair of American father and son for allegedly assisting Nissan’s former chairman Ghosn to escape to Lebanon.
According to reports, prosecutors stated in a statement that Michael Taylor and his son Peter Taylor, a veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, were charged with assisting Ghosn’s escape to Lebanon and charged with assisting criminals to escape.
Data map: Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor.
According to previous reports, Ghosn, the 66-year-old former chairman of Nissan, was charged with financial impropriety during his tenure. He was arrested in Tokyo in November 2018 and was placed under house arrest on bail in April 2019.
He later meticulously planned an absconding operation and successfully entered Lebanon.
Japanese prosecutors pointed out that Michael Taylor and his son assisted Ghosn in fleeing Japan in December 2019.
They let Ghosn hide in a musical instrument box, leave through a high-level cargo pipeline used by a private jet at Kansai Airport in Japan, and return to his hometown of Lebanon.
There is no extradition treaty between Lebanon and Japan.
The prosecutor said that Taylor and his son assisted Ghosn in absconding and received a compensation of 1.3 million US dollars.
The two were extradited from the United States and handed over to the Japanese authorities in early March 2021.