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Towering ex-car manager: Interpol issues arrest warrant against Carlos Ghosn

2020-01-02T14:53:15.114Z


Japan has received an arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn from the Interpol International Police Department. Turkey meanwhile is taking action against possible escape helpers of the ex-car manager who fled.



After his surprising escape from Japan to Lebanon, the former CEO Carlos Ghosn is now being sought with an international arrest warrant. Lebanese judicial circles said that the international police agency Interpol had sent a request to the Attorney General in Beirut on behalf of the Japanese government.

The Tokyo State Department said the Japanese government was now dependent on help from the Lebanese authorities because there was no extradition agreement with the Mediterranean state.

According to this, Ghosn will be questioned in Lebanon next week about the allegations. Then it will be decided whether Japanese experts would be involved in the investigation there. Government circles in Beirut also said that Ghosn had entered Lebanon with a valid new French passport.

Ghosn was supposed to be tried in Japan. There he was released on bail in April under strict conditions. These should prevent him from going abroad.

Ghosn then surprisingly showed up in Lebanon on Monday. According to insiders, the car manager flew a private jet from Istanbul to Beirut on Monday. There he owns a luxury property in the Lebanese capital Beirut. The ex-manager is a French, Brazilian and Lebanese national. His family originally comes from Lebanon.

Escape route via Istanbul, arrests in Turkey

According to the Turkish broadcaster NTV, authorities in Turkey have arrested seven people who were involved in the ex-manager's flight. Four pilots are said to be among the suspects.

Auto manager in custodyThe mysterious case of Carlos Ghosn

Meanwhile, the French government has also spoken out in the case: Ghosn can feel safe in France - at least before being extradited to Japan. "If Mr. Ghosn came to France, we would not extradite Mr. Ghosn, because France never extradits its own nationals," said State Secretary in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, BFMTV.

Pannier-Runacher also pointed out that Ghosn was not above the law either. In the past, investigators had also searched Renault offices in France. In other words, Ghosn would be protected from extradition in France, but not immune to possible own investigations by the French judiciary.

Ghosn was a long time Renault and Nissan boss. He is considered the architect of the international car alliance between Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi.

Source: spiegel

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