, despite surrendering his four passports — two French, one Lebanese, and one Brazilian — to Japanese authorities upon his arrest in November 2018.
Despite taking possession of the documents, Japan's courts allowed Ghosn to access the second French passport in May 2019 for use inside Japan,"He had to keep this passport" to prove his short-stay status, the source said. They also said "There was permission from the court." Until the AFP report was published, many assumed Ghosn had managed to leave Japan without a passport.following his arrest in November 2018. He was accused of hiding $80 million in payments from Nissan.Lebanese police officers are seen at the entrance to the garage of what is believed to be former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn's house in Beirut, Lebanon December 31, 2019.that Ghosn had access to a second passport on Thursday, citing unnamed sources.
"The court allowed Ghosn to carry one of the two French passports with him in a locked case," NHK said. Ghosn was banned from traveling abroad as part of his $13 million bail agreement. That bail agreement has now been revoked in light of his escape,Passers-by and Lebanese Internal Security Forces officers pictured outside the house of Carlos Ghosn in Ashrafieh on December 31, 2019 in Beirut, Lebanon.Ghosn is said to have used a private jet to flee from Kansai Airport in western Japan to Istanbul on Sunday at 11 p.m. local time.
davidakondu 'Second French Passport' sounds fraudulent but that's all that we know 😎
Hilarious!
at first glance I thought this was Kevin Spacey