Money Moved To Company Of Ghosn Smuggler
Tokyo prosecutors are set to question two Americans who arrived in Japan and were arrested on charges of helping the former Nissan chairman to escape from the country.
US court documents show that Carlos Ghosn paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a company managed by one of the two men.
The prosecutors on Tuesday arrested Michael Taylor, a former Green Beret, and his adult son Peter after arriving in Japan following their extradition by US authorities.
The two are accused of smuggling Ghosn out of Japan in a private jet to Lebanon in December 2019. Ghosn was facing financial misconduct charges and had been released on bail.
The court documents show that two months before the escape more than 850,000 dollars were remitted from a bank account belonging to Ghosn to a company owned by Peter Taylor.
Other documents also show that the son of the former chairman sent cryptocurrency worth about 470,000 dollars to Peter Taylor from January to May of last year.
That means the Taylors' side has received a total of more than 1.3 million dollars.
Ghosn denies the charges filed against him. He remains in Lebanon, despite an international wanted notice from Interpol. Officials in Beirut say he is allowed to stay in the country, where he has citizenship.