Ryan comments

Does he have the right to select the most favorable court of law worldwide which he considers do him justice, criticizing any judicial system that accuses him of embezzling lots of money?  In Japan, certainly persons who are ‘indicted’ are likely to be found guilty (so called 99% conviction rate). However, persons who are ‘arrested’ will be found guilty at the conviction rate of 50% (denominator of which is total number of arrested persons). This percentage is similar to that in U.S. and other civilized countries. If there are 100 persons who are arrested. 20 persons can walk on the street immediately and “30 persons will be indicted but found not guilty”, and remaining 50 persons will be found guilty, while in Japan these 30 persons for which sufficient evidence is not secured will never face a criminal trial because these 30 persons are already ‘presumed innocent’ before trial. The 99% conviction rate indicates that prosecutors have strong evidence and are confident when indicting them. Mr. Ghosn faced this reality and selected to illegally leave Japan without permission, with new conclusive evidence (email) having been available to the prosecutors just before leaving.