Intrigued by how he pulled it off? Read the full account of Carlos Ghosn's escape from Japan in Businessweek: www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-01-14/how-nissan-s-carlos-ghosn-was-smuggled-out-of-japan

"He was wearinf a surgical mask, the ones you wear for pollution..." Oh, the innocence before COVID19.

What do the Japanese tail agents tell to the chief police officer? Carlos' Gone

Japanese prosecutors have a 99% conviction rate. You be the judge, if that is reasonable or not. We don't know if Ghosn is guilty or not, but come on... he wasn't going to get any sort of justice in Japan.

This guy was framed. Nissan and Japanese politicians weren't about to let a French company take over a traditional Japanese one, and he was their fall guy.

Japanese basically have this principle in their society. You can learn Japanese, you can learn to eat and dress like them, you can even marry a Japanese person, but you cannot become accepted in Japanese society as a Japanese person. You're always an outsider. Even the foreigners they hire, they do so for a few years. They want to learn some new technology or method and then internalize it. After that they don't need you. This is something an Australian tour guide who has worked in Japan for many years told me.

So basically Nissan sacked the head who saved them from going broke.

When they realized Carlos was Ghosn... it was already too late.

Carlos Ghosn entire life is unprecedented - first man to be CEO of two Fortune 500 companies, first man to escape Japan while being detained, first man to… put Japan in its place for his mistreatment? Don’t underestimate him.

I use to work for a Japanese company, this is no surprise

Actually his "escape" works well for Japan. Nissan remains Japanese and they don't have to deal with a prolonged case where the evidence is weak.

There are many foreigners in Japan that are arrested for bogus charges and detained without being allowed to contact any lawyers or family members and had to wait for a really long time to get a fair trial. Like imagine you are walking to your house from a bar, suddenly got arrested out of nowhere, immediately thrown to prison, and not allowed to contact anyone, family members, friends, or even a lawyer. It is so common that there is a group of lawyers who specialized in helping those peoples. My sister who used to work there really hates them because they are very racist towards the non-Japanese.

Honestly, it sounds like he might have been justified to flee.

15-45 years for Ghosn, meanwhile the WW2 criminals in the tokyo trials stayed in prison for max 7 years ...

any foreigner who has been in japan and lived there supports ghosn. he is a legend. he had to escape

I remember reading a detailed post on Reddit by someone who pointed out these things before Carlos even said it himself. They talked about the timeline of events and how the speed of it happened in such a manner that only inside law officials could expedite the process. How he was unable to bail earlier on his first lockup was another major indication of inside law officials pulling strings.

Things don't add up. Ghosn is able to speak only basic Japanese and (afaik) he doesn't read or write any. Yet, somehow he was aledgedly able to fool a small army of accountants at Nissan and secretly pocket a sum of money that amount to just a small fraction of his yearly salary?

Of course he was the highest paid CEO in Japan, I would like to think that comes along with being CEO of the top 3 companies.

That’s really corrupt. Look at how swiftly the system locked him up in solitary confinement for 100+ days with no bail! Screw that!

There's a lot of speculations about this guy and his actions, but I personally think that he is innocent, at least until proven guilty. And the Japanese system has treated him like a guilty man from the beginning. This isn't fair to him nor any human being. We have rights and are allowed to live within the boundaries of the law.

The man that helped him escape was my brother’s high school football coach. Small town coach to household name.

There will be a movie about this in 10 years!

Ghosn played Ace Attorney and knows defending yourself in Japanese court is impossible.

He made it just in time. Just before the lockdown. Amazing.

It was clearly a hit job on him, They need to make a movie about the escape.

Lesson learned: never help a Japanese company from dirt all they care is their brand heritage as being Japanese even if it means bad business

I worked as a lube tech, at a Nissan dealership. As soon as news broke out about him, we saw our clientele DECLINE like crazy.

And in other news, Carlos Ghosn has reportedly invested heavily into Beirut's restaurant/bar/club district. When asked why, he stated the area's real estate was undervalued and was expected to blow up in the near future. Stand by.

Carlos Ghosn's case needs to be made into a documentary/movie and receive the global attention that it deserves. Changes to Japan's justice system will only come when there is enough outside pressure ("gaiatsu" in Japanese).

In fact, it's very simple. Nissan was very happy to have Carlos Ghosn as its director until they became afraid that the company was getting too close to France and Renault. I like Japan a lot but the corruption is even worse than in the US, it's awful

He was chairman of Nissan & Mitsubishi but other administrators of these companies (Japanese administrators of course) have to see & authorize everything related to the company's finance. This is purely a plot. Even if he actually managed to hide financial frauds to them, that makes less than a 100 millions lost from a guy who saved two Japanese companies worth billions...

The problem is in Japan they have a 99% conviction rate. Once your accused you go to jail.

Japan needs to update its ethnocentric, narrow-minded judicial system to make it more fair, unbiased, transparent.

This is a really interesting story. Carlos basically got stabbed in the back by his board, who was afraid Renault would gain too much control over their company.

من سورية الف تحية للأخوة في لبنان وكارلوس غصن فخر كل العرب ونقف معه قلبا وقاااالبا ..إنسان عظيم وناااجح ارادو اسقاطه٦ لأسباب مجهولة الا حد ما..

Nissan has lost its reputation by turning their back on the person who saved it

8:46- 'He was wearing a surgical mask, the one you would wear for germs or pollution'- yea dude, we know about this Mask, trust me, we know!

Great content Bloomberg! Thumbs up for all team who worked on 😃😃

Excellent move of Carlos Ghosn. It is impressive and amazing that he could respond with such elegant scape. And immediately fight for his vindication. I hope that eventually he will be rightfully rewarded.

Interestingly enough, Nissan did have a serious coup that was out to get Ghosn. While he wanted a merger, a huge portion of the company wanted Nissan to stay solely Japanese, and the government of course agreed. They hired a lawyer to investigate Ghosn and other various wrong doings in the company, but when the lawyer started finding out that just about everyone in the highest branches of the company were all embezzling funds and committing crimes they had him fired and ruined his life. So, even if Ghosn is guilty, he was right to flee because in Japan the rate of guilty convictions is something crazy like 97%, it's basically guilty till proven innocent beyond all reasonable doubt.

In Japan.. if they arrest you like this.. it’s because they’ve already found you guilty. The court is just a formality.

Making false statements to leave out compensations he was going to receive. Breach of trust relating to personal investment losses Breach of trust relating to payments Nissan dealer American CEO: Bruh, that's what we call around here Tuesday

Japanese were too proud of their system to imagine he'd dare to escape from the confines. Serves them well for acting blatantly in their own interests only

As someone who has loved and purchased Nissan cars and trucks I will never buy Nissan again because of the shameful way they treated Ghosn.

They should make a car movie called "Ghosn in 60 Seconds".

I love it when people stick it to the system.

This guys a freaking legend! Hope he gets to clear his name on his own terms.

Everybody tries to think outside the box but this guy thinks inside the box. Lol

I do not care what the Japanese say he did wrong because the only thing he actually did was save Nissan. They were never fond of him from the beginning due to the fact that he was not Japanese.

weebs pretend to know everything about japan but never know the real face of japan. that is because, for them, japan is the perfect imaginary world learned from anime.

Lebanese people are smart I’ll give them that. I work with them in Canada and many are very wealthy and successful.

The only person they dug up dirt on was Japan; exposing what an nationalistic, corrupt and unfair country it really is. Really disgusting to see all of that tolerated in a "civilised" nation.

I aways believed him since the beggining of this history. Japanese companies are very, very against the idea of mergers or even buyouts by foreign companies. The justice system in Japan is very corrupt (Yakuza is basically decriminalized) and unfair (how many innocents are sent to the death row and are still there without any review of their cases?). He did the absolute right to flee to another country where he feels safer with the justice system.

My company is a large-format printing business. Our two biggest customers for the last 15 years have been Nissan and Michelin Tire. Thanks Carlos Ghosn!

Sounds like an ambitious person crossed some elite people who didn't like that.

"Sophisticated high tech country like Japan" now that I live in Japan, I can tell you for a fact, that this is a misconception. Japan isn't high tech, and the police aren't either. Japan is largely well known for certain electronics manufacturing, but it doesn't extend at all to software. Those electronics are pretty niche consumer products as well. The government is notoriously slow moving and wouldn't be on board with broadscale things like CCTVs like in the UK. It seems like it would be not as difficult as they make it seem to escape Japan.

Great editing!

Japan has been a closed society for years. It is not that foreigners are not welcome but tradition dictates that they be segregated. When Carlos Ghosn took over Nissan, he was viewed with disdain because it went against tradition. He changed how Nissan was structured and managed to save it from bankruptcy. No matter what decisions where made by him at the time he was under constant scrutiny. It was a matter of time that those who had a personal vendetta against him would get the opportunity to dispose of a foreigner like him.

2021 Nissan Ghosn. Pioneering the new single door, engine-less, city hatchback. With four castor wheels, low emissions, and cosy interior. Innovation that exits.

There's no such thing as due process in Japan. I would've done the same.

Wow. I love these Bloomberg UKposts reportage.

This guy was born in Brazil, and he may have inherited what we call here in Brazil: 'jeitinho' (lil manner) 'Jeitinho' is a way to solve something quickly using any option.

If I had to chose running or Japan's legal system I would run

Excellent reporting with helpful graphics. 👍

Great video! Please make such videos

It reminds me of the Olympus scandal, where Michael Woodford was screwed over by the Japanese old boys network...

Just to correct some information , first he didn’t lose surveillance that way , what he did was :he noticed cops tracking him so he complained to the judge , but nothing was done and then he was advised to call tabloid (newsletter) to expose the cops and write an article about that , then he noticed that the cops stop for 3 days each time he called the tabloids guys , so the moment he wanted to escape he called the tabloid which resulted in him not getting tracked Secondly , the big box was not xrayed because he chose go escape in the holidays period , and the airport staff were not permanent , so the escape team told them that the box will get damaged if it was xrayed , and they told them that the musicians used to work with micheal jackson lol. So that is the real story told by ghosn in a Lebanese poadcast

Well made and presented.

Interesting documentary- well presented.

Honestly, I respect this.

Absolutely, excellent reporting ! 🏆

Really enjoyed the way this was reported 👌 Thank you.

From Tokyo all my best personal regards thank you very much for news 📰,

After living in Japan for 20 years and being a tax payer, I am in a similar predicament. 15 cops raided my apartment with a fake search warrant one morning where I was accused of pushing a Japanese down and the person was claiming injuries. They messed up my apartment over the clothing I was wearing that particular day. Then in front of my family was taken away and interrogated without a translator. I was forced to sign documents and let go. First, I never even touched the so called victim but I did give him a few choice words at the time. The victim got back at me by going to the hospital and getting a doctors certificate claiming a neck injury which was used against me in order to extort money. It’s very bad. I was called in by the prosecutor and was told he believed the victim and if I couldn’t pay the victim, then he would prosecute me. When I mentioned I didn’t even touch the victim, he said he is prosecuting me. The he yelled out that he can’t stand American foreigners and told me to get the F out. Even though I was given a city appointed lawyer, the lawyer mentioned that 99% I will be found guilty even without any proof!!! So I will end up in Japanese jail and put to hard labor. Once I pay back fines and restitution to the victim at $28.00 a day, after say 3 years, once I get out, I will only step foot on a plane and deported. I wished the UKposts community could help me. So my word to all thinking about coming to Japan will be a mistake. If you come here on a tour it’s safer but alone, there is a high risk you could end up like me. Since I am a nobody, I am 53 years old with 13 rescue cats, nobody is giving me the time of day!!!

0:26 Nasa astronauts have confirmed seeing his Eyebrows from space.

Super interesting video ! Merci !

this was a good storytelling, good job Robin Fall

No one will dispute he is a successful leader and polled the company from busting. His strength and energy on defending himself are clearly a sign he is innocent. He could only hide in his house and not meet anyone but he is a legend.

Guys like him should be called for guest lectures at universities.

Love this, very interesting

Nice investigation! 👏🏾

This is coming out like a "billionaire underdog" story. Lol

It’s pronounced Gho-son not ghon 🤦🏻‍♂️ I’m Lebanese

Beautifully made video

@Matthew Campbell. The list of charges: 01) Under-reporting compensation 2010-14; 02) Under-reporting compensation 2015-17; 03) “Breach of Trust” relating to personal investment losses; 04) “Breach of Trust” relating to payments to Nissan dealer. Couldn’t Nissan have just fired Carlos before things got out of hand? It’s a little confusing to me that company heads would sit on their asses while one of their own was supposedly ripping off the company.

He was framed. What a legend.

Netflix movie coming up

Great upload

This is a political issue. Nissan did not want to be taken away by the French government and Renault Motors. This was originally an unfair transaction, but at the time Nissan was really debt-ridden. The Japanese government and Nissan saw the right time and dismissed Carlos. To be precise, this was a political persecution.

Let me make it clear for everyone uninitiated - Nissan refused to pay his bonuses to Ghosn. He found another way to compensate himself. I don’t blame him.

That thumbnail at 9:31 is everything I laughed for about 15min only someone with extreme wealth could have pulled that move

Now that is the Man with a Plan. Respect!

Amazing story

We'll see how Nissan and Mitsubishi do without him! Unfortunately, I heard many stories like this from people studying or working in Japan!

When somebody says ”sophisticated high-tech” about Japan. You know they only went once or twice for vacation 😂

The irony of this is that a Nissan ad popped under this video.

This is a cautionary tale for talented executives open to working in countries not friendly to foreigners. Although not exactly the same it reminds me of what happened to Tidjane Thiam with Credit Suisse.

Thinking in a box was a thinking out of it

Thanks for exposing Japan 👍

The Japanese, despite all he did for Nissan, were never happy with having a gaijin in charge of their company - it's a cruel world.