Inside Carlos Ghosn’s Unbelievable, Daring Escape

Just before New Year’s Eve 2019, Carlos Ghosn, the ousted leader of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA, completed a daring escape from Tokyo, where he was facing criminal charges that could have put him in prison for more than a decade. Bloomberg Businessweek Reporter, Matthew Campbell, uncovered details surrounding the escape and the events that led up to it.

Read Matthew Campbell's full reporting on Carlos Ghosn's escape on Bloomberg Businessweek:

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[emixmim]

Japanese prosecutors have a 99% conviction rate. You be the judge, if that is reasonable or not. We don't know if Ghosn is guilty or not, but come on... he wasn't going to get any sort of justice in Japan.

[GraceMusyoka]

"He was wearinf a surgical mask, the ones you wear for pollution..."
Oh, the innocence before COVID19.

[MrLorenzoriz]

What do the Japanese tail agents tell to the chief police officer?

Carlos' Gone

[muhali]

Carlos Ghosn entire life is unprecedented - first man to be CEO of two Fortune 500 companies, first man to escape Japan while being detained, first man to… put Japan in its place for his mistreatment? Don’t underestimate him.

[ClownSpass]

This guy was framed. Nissan and Japanese politicians weren't about to let a French company take over a traditional Japanese one, and he was their fall guy.

[amardave]

Japanese basically have this principle in their society. You can learn Japanese, you can learn to eat and dress like them, you can even marry a Japanese person, but you cannot become accepted in Japanese society as a Japanese person. You're always an outsider. Even the foreigners they hire, they do so for a few years. They want to learn some new technology or method and then internalize it. After that they don't need you. This is something an Australian tour guide who has worked in Japan for many years told me.

[AshwinAjay]

So basically Nissan sacked the head who saved them from going broke.

[danieljones]

Actually his "escape" works well for Japan. Nissan remains Japanese and they don't have to deal with a prolonged case where the evidence is weak.

[apple]

any foreigner who has been in japan and lived there supports ghosn. he is a legend. he had to escape

[mikazaki]

There are many foreigners in Japan that are arrested for bogus charges and detained without being allowed to contact any lawyers or family members and had to wait for a really long time to get a fair trial. Like imagine you are walking to your house from a bar, suddenly got arrested out of nowhere, immediately thrown to prison, and not allowed to contact anyone, family members, friends, or even a lawyer. It is so common that there is a group of lawyers who specialized in helping those peoples. My sister who used to work there really hates them because they are very racist towards the non-Japanese.

[sjiz]

8:46- 'He was wearing a surgical mask, the one you would wear for germs or pollution'- yea dude, we know about this Mask, trust me, we know!

[MikVision]

15-45 years for Ghosn, meanwhile the WW2 criminals in the tokyo trials stayed in prison for max 7 years ...

[DSAK]

I use to work for a Japanese company, this is no surprise

[peppeddu]

Things don't add up.
Ghosn is able to speak only basic Japanese and (afaik) he doesn't read or write any.
Yet, somehow he was aledgedly able to fool a small army of accountants at Nissan and secretly pocket a sum of money that amount to just a small fraction of his yearly salary?

[georgesyves]

There's a lot of speculations about this guy and his actions, but I personally think that he is innocent, at least until proven guilty. And the Japanese system has treated him like a guilty man from the beginning. This isn't fair to him nor any human being. We have rights and are allowed to live within the boundaries of the law.

[kresimircosic]

When they realized Carlos was Ghosn... it was already too late.

[fadiestifani]

من سورية الف تحية للأخوة في لبنان وكارلوس غصن فخر كل العرب ونقف معه قلبا وقاااالبا ..إنسان عظيم وناااجح ارادو اسقاطه٦ لأسباب مجهولة الا حد ما..

[sungkono]

He made it just in time. Just before the lockdown. Amazing.

[alexdenton]

In fact, it's very simple. Nissan was very happy to have Carlos Ghosn as its director until they became afraid that the company was getting too close to France and Renault.

I like Japan a lot but the corruption is even worse than in the US, it's awful

[teddybearisms]

Honestly, it sounds like he might have been justified to flee.