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| 2020-01-01 |
| 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 |
| #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 |
| #6 Sounds like someone watched "Under Siege". So, who jumped out of the cake, Hillarity? |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2020-01-01 14:14 |
| #5 play it again, Besoeker! |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-01 13:09 |
| #4 Where did they find long-haired SF? :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-01-01 12:47 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-01-01 12:31 |
| #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 |
| #1 Cultural appropriation indeed. Used to have to commit ritual seppuku. Ah, the good old days. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-01-01 11:57 |