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2020-01-01 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Details On Carlos Ghosn's Escape From New York Japan
God damn, this is a good story; it's adding some interesting and funny details about Ghosn hightailin' outta Dodge...
[NY Post] - Nissan’s former CEO fled house arrest in Japan in a wild Hollywood-worthy plot ‐ allegedly using a team of mercenaries posing as musicians to smuggle him out of the country in an instrument case, reports said.

Accused embezzler Carlos Ghosn then used a relay of private jets to flee all the way from Tokyo to his family’s heavily guarded pink mansion in Lebanon, a nation which does not have an extradition treaty with Japan.

"I am now in Lebanon and will no longer be held hostage by a rigged Japanese justice system,’’ the defiant former auto honcho said in a statement Tuesday.

"I have not fled justice. I have escaped injustice and political persecution.’’

The wealthy 65-year-old former auto honcho had been out on $14 million bail, confined to house arrest ‐ and under ’round-the-clock Japanese guard ‐ at his tony Tokyo apartment when he escaped Sunday.

In a bizarre scheme allegedly orchestrated by his wife in the US, a group of ex-special forces soldiers posing as musicians specializing in a Gregorian band and toting music equipment strolled past Japanese security guards and entered the pad, according to the Lebanese news channel MTV.

Ghosn, who stands at just under 5-foot-6, climbed into "one of the boxes intended for the transfer of musical instruments,’’ the news station said ‐ possibly a roughly 6-foot-tall double-base case.
Posted by Raj 2020-01-01 10:07|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Cultural appropriation indeed. Used to have to commit ritual seppuku. Ah, the good old days.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-01 11:57||   2020-01-01 11:57|| Front Page Top

#2 group of ex-special forces soldiers posing as musicians specializing in a Gregorian band and toting music equipment

Love the ingenuity but I'm having trouble picturing the "band." I thought the friars were restricted to chanting?
Posted by Lex 2020-01-01 12:27||   2020-01-01 12:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Lex ~ This old movie has a way of explaining nearly everything political.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-01 12:31||   2020-01-01 12:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Where did they find long-haired SF? :-)
Posted by gorb 2020-01-01 12:47|| H  2020-01-01 12:47|| Front Page Top

#5 play it again, Besoeker!
Posted by Lex 2020-01-01 13:09||   2020-01-01 13:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like someone watched "Under Siege". So, who jumped out of the cake, Hillarity?
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-01-01 14:14||   2020-01-01 14:14|| Front Page Top

#7 ex-special forces soldiers posing as musicians specializing in a Gregorian band

I'm surprised they didn't insist on Rock or Metal.

"No fuckin' way, mam ! He can just as easily fit inside a speaker."

Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-01 14:20||   2020-01-01 14:20|| Front Page Top

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