Americans accused of helping Carlos Ghosn escape extradited to Japan
Japan alleges that a former US Army Special Forces soldier and his son helped the Lebanese businessman and former Nissan head escape the country.
Two Americans have been extradited to Japan in relation to Lebanese businessman Carlos Ghosn’s escape from the country.
Former US Army Green Beret Michael Taylor and his son Peter Taylor were extradited to Japan on Tuesday morning, a Justice Department spokeswoman told Al-Monitor.
The Taylors were first arrested in May of last year in the US state of Massachusetts after a Japanese request in relation to Ghosn’s escape from Japan.
Ghosn was CEO of the Japanese car company Nissan from 2001-2017 and chairman from 2001-2018. He was arrested in 2018 in Japan for alleged financial misconduct, which he denied. He was released on bail in April 2019. He then fled to Lebanon via a flight to Istanbul in what later became a highly publicized escape at the end of the same year.
