By jumping bail, Ghosn commits clear crime

Well, if you’re in your late 60s, looking at an indefinite house arrest and court schedule, probably evidence stacked against you, gag order, etc., I’d skip town and enjoy the rest of my life.

I don't think that the Japanese judicial system will just let this go.

He is pretty clearly guilty of absconding whilst under bail conditions.

That is a crime. The Japanese officials can issue Red Notices though Interpol on Ghosn and any person that they consider to be an accomplice or a relevant witness.

Therefore he can expect ongoing harassment (at least) of his family and close associates.

The extraction team will eventually be identified as well.

He might have gotten himself out for now, but he has dropped a lot of other people in.

gary

And his lawyers because they are Japanese get a suspended sentence..

(Ghosn) can never return to Japan without going to jail.

“So he now has burnt his bridges to Japan,” Stephen Givens ... said Wednesday.

I don't think he will have any regrets about that considering his last year in Japan, although he's probably not happy about forfeiting his 1.5 yen billion bail money.

By jumping bail, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who had long insisted on his innocence, has now committed a clear crime and can never return to Japan without going to jail.

Does anyone think he cares about returning to Japan

One report said he sneaked out from his Tokyo home hiding in a case for a musical instrument.

What? What kind of huge instrument is that and how does one sneak in it?

I somehow don't think Ghosn will be crying himself to sleep at night knowing he can't return to Japan ever again. He'll probably consider the bail money well spent now that he's back home.

I don’t think he will be overly concerned about the loss of bail money. Just consider how much he will make for the best selling book he is going to write, the film rights for a film everybody will want to see and interviews etc. He must be a very happy man and now he can enjoy the usual marital relations with his wife, disgustingly denied by the travesty of the Japanese “justice system”.

As for never being able to return to Japan, that’s just laughable. Why on earth would you want to?

When he was granted a bail, he agreed that he would not leave Japan. He lied. Many of his supporters expected he would fight a good fight in the court. Instead, he ran away.

Erroneous assumption that he wishes ever to return to Japan. After the way he has been treated and the glaring contrast to the treatment of equivalent Japanese suspects it is hardly surprising!

Japans hostage legal system is the defendant in the court of international opinion, and every petty vindictive step they take to harass him and his family will highlight the basic injustice of the system and heap opprobrium upon Japan’s reputation, beyond any hope of redemption.

So what does Mr Stephen Givens have to say about the lengthy incarceration of Mr Ghosn whilst only a suspect, the repeated rearrest warrants, and the long drawn out trial date now put back over a year? Any opinion about how the public prosecutors advertised the rearrest warrants all over national tv? On a suspect not prosecuted for any crime?

So now what Japan?

I doubt whether anyone who is about to be framed by the authorities would ever want to return to Japan. Japan is not some kind of sanctuary or paradise.

Leaving just added one more to his list of crimes.