Two Americans, Peter and Michael Taylor, who allegedly aided ex-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn’s escape from Japan, were arrested, suggesting the businessman may not be out of the clear yet.
If the pandemic hadn’t enveloped all possible news cycles this year, it’s quite likely that former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn would be the subject of great scrutiny for shipping himself in a roadie case from Japan to his eventual destination in Beirut in order to avoid trial on charges of alleged financial misconduct. But since the businessman pulled off his Houdini-of-the-boardroom escape on December 29 of last year, he has largely avoided both media attention and legal repercussions for the act, which he called a flight from “injustice and persecution” — and Japanese authorities called the illegal escape of a fugitive who purportedly hid as much as $140 million in compensation. But that may soon change.
Peter Taylor, now 27 years old, traveled to Japan three times in the months leading up to Mr.
