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Carlos Ghosn - Anyone following this story? (1 Viewer)

McBokonon

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I tend to have Bloomberg or CNBC on in the background when I work, so I’ve heard bits and pieces of this but didn’t really dig into this story until this morning. 
 

Ghosn is the former CEO of Nissan with citizenship from Lebanon, France, and Brazil. He was fired from Nissan and arrested in 2018 in Japan for misusing company assets and under-reporting his income. He was out on bail but arrested again for similar charges. While in charge at Nissan, he was leading a partnership with Renault who he had previously brought back from the brink of bankruptcy. In fact, he turned Nissan around, too, and won Asian Businessman of the Year from Fortune as a result. This guy was crushing the game. Well, Renault found about 11 billion euros in questionable expenses so France did some raids and he was fired from there, too. (I’m leaving a lot out.) 

He fled Japan on December 30th, landing in Lebanon via Turkey after hiding in a crate on a private plane. He hid in a ####### crate used for musical instruments! It was too big for scanners and wasn’t searched. According to the Wall Street Journal, “...a 15-strong escape team took 20 trips to Japan to plan the escape, visiting at least 10 airports to search for weaknesses.”

 So he’s awaiting trial in Japan, hanging in Lebanon, and now Japan issued a warrant for his wife.

That’s the abbreviated summary. This will be a movie one day.

 
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It's my understanding Lebanon is a non-extradition country so he's essentially free to do as he pleases there as long as he stays in country OR Japan sends the special forces in & kidnap him.

 
beer 30 said:
It's my understanding Lebanon is a non-extradition country so he's essentially free to do as he pleases there as long as he stays in country OR Japan sends the special forces in & kidnap him.
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Yep. I wonder if he’s the kind of guy who might give traveling a shot one day despite the risk. He’s clearly capable of being brazen.

 
McBokonon said:
Yep. I wonder if he’s the kind of guy who might give traveling a shot one day despite the risk. He’s clearly capable of being brazen.
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Roman Polanski's lived a pretty good life for a guy that should have spent a good deal of his life behind bars.

This dude musta paid hella cash to the team that got huim out because they are all under investigation now & probably will see jail time. He doesn't impress me as someone who gives a rats ### about those around him & thinks he's above the law so yea, I could see it.

 
My first thought was that I was kind of surprised that this sort of thing didn't happen more often.

My second thought was that I was pretty impressed with what he was able to pull off.

My third thought is that I hope they catch him and lock him up.

 
McBokonon said:
No idea what you’re trying to say here. I know that’s an Atlas Shrugged reference but that’s it. 
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I'm just messing around, as if unable to make a coherent comment. Galt's Gulch was where the aggrieved-by-taxes and regulations the super elite migrated to, unable to be found by normal humans. "Looters" is the pejorative term that Rand used for politicians and citizens who argued for higher taxation and trust-busting legislation, especially regarding traditionally huge yet not-nationalized industries like oil and transportation.

It was a light-hearted joke to make fun of this guy and Rand's similar extremism in the face of agreed-upon economic civic duty. That said, people really should know their Rand. Hers was the devastating popular voice of the economic right in the latter half of the 20th Century. She gave individualism gravitas. 

 
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money may not be able to buy happiness but it can buy freedom and immunity from prosecution if you have enough of it  :thumbup:

 
[scooter] said:
My first thought was that I was kind of surprised that this sort of thing didn't happen more often.

My second thought was that I was pretty impressed with what he was able to pull off.

My third thought is that I hope they catch him and lock him up.
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I reckon it has to be a lot harder now with all the surveillance. Back before the 1990s or something, crime must have been so much easier.

 
Ive read he's preemptively hired El Chapos tunnel team and Laughlin's martial arts experts 

Love this story. Every time I read a new story about him as well as the escape I'm gobstruck.

 
Bringing light to how rigged the Japanese justice system is. He’s not looking like the bad guy here and I would have done the same thing in his shoes 

 
We're all conditioned by decades of movie watching to root for the escapee but Ghosn is just the guy who paid for the job and hid in a box. 

 
Judge Smails said:
Bringing light to how rigged the Japanese justice system is. He’s not looking like the bad guy here and I would have done the same thing in his shoes 
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Not saying this won't end up being the case...but to my untrained eye, yes- via the media, he is looking like the bad guy here.

 
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