Eight months after the Japanese authorities requested it, two Americans accused of helping Carlos Ghosn escape from Tokyo to Lebanon were extradited to Japan.
Michael Taylor, a former member of the US special forces converted to private security, and his son Peter Taylor have been handed over to Japanese officials, their lawyer Paul Kelly said, speaking of "a sad day for the family and for all those who are there. who believe that veterans deserve to be treated better by their own country ”.
Japan accuses the father and son, as well as the Lebanese George-Antoine Zayek, of having allowed Carlos Ghosn, the former boss of Renault-Nissan, to escape Japanese justice by fleeing the country at the end of December 2019. The passports of Taylor father and Zayek were presented to board a private jet at Osaka airport on Sunday, December 29, 2019, which carried to Turkey a padded box in which Carlos Ghosn was concealed.
Taylor Jr. is the manager of the company Fox Fox LLC which received, via an electronic transfer made from a bank account located in Paris and belonging to Carlos Ghosn, received the sum of 862,500 dollars (approximately 764,000 euros).
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Father and son, targeted by an arrest warrant from Japan, were arrested in May in the United States.
They then remained detained because they were considered to present a "great risk of absconding".
Japan had requested their extradition in early July, and it was not until February 13 that the US Supreme Court removed the last obstacle to this procedure.
Ghosn, who is the subject of an Interpol arrest request, remains beyond the reach of Japanese judges because Lebanon does not extradite its nationals.
"I have not fled justice, I escaped injustice" he hammered in early January 2020 during a conference-show in Beirut in front of cameras around the world.
Lebanese justice, however, prohibited him from leaving the country.
Carlos Ghosn is still the subject of several indictments in Japan for financial embezzlement.
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A week ago, in Istanbul, Turkey, a senior official of the private aviation company MNG Jet and two pilots, all three Turks, were sentenced to four years and two months in prison for their role in the exfiltration. of businessman.
Two other pilots and two flight attendants, tried at the same time, were released.
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