imo his concerns about the japanese justice system arent all wrong. so not that simple. if i was in his position i'd probably do the same.
Conveniently, he cannot stand trial in France, which has also called for his arrest based on their own investigations, because he chose to become an international fugitive in Lebanon [1].
That said, I believe there has been prosecutorial interest around Anthony Ghosn--Carlos's son living in, to my last recollection, California--due to payments he made to the Taylors [2]. (The daughter, Maya, who is profiled in the article helping him escape is also in California, though there is no interest in charging her to my knowledge.)
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/france-issues-international-arr...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-taylor-bail-...
I know the tech scene tends to fawn over Japanese culture, but business and government there lean conservative like every other nation state right now. My experience is that it’s 100% possible some xenophobes within industry have a very “Brexit-like” mentality about their nation and the fear of Renault-Nissan culture clash was leveraged to trump up charges.
Note I said it’s possible. Ultimately none of us really know, but the Japanese are “just people” too. No reason to believe they’re aren’t pulling an “Assange” like the west.
(Without getting into value judgments about the merits of the case,) this quote from Leo McGarry comes to mind:
> Well, that's why he did it. You can't fault him for having a winning strategy.
http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/search.php?flag=getTransc...