Accused of stealing millions from the car company he led, arrested in Japan and smuggled out of the country in a storage chest. This isn’t a Hollywood script – it’s the story of the Carlos Ghosn saga.
Carlos Ghosn, the former CEO of Nissan and Renault who fled Japan while under house arrest – escaping to his homeland of Lebanon while hiding inside a large box which was loaded onto a private jet – will have his story told to the world in a new Netflix documentary.
Exclusive to streaming service Netflix, ‘Fugitive: The Curious Case of Carlos Ghosn’ details the rise and fall of one of the car industry’s most controversial executives.
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Between 1999 and 2001, Ghosn ascended from Nissan’s Chief Operating Officer to president and finally Chief Executive Officer, becoming instrumental in the formation of the Renault-Nissan Alliance (later the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance).
In 2005, Ghosn was appointed as Renault’s president before taking the CEO role in 2009 – becoming the first person to run two Fortune 500 companies (Nissan and Renault) at the same time.
While Ghosn stepped down as Nissan CEO in 2017, he remained chairman until he was fired from the board in April 2019 – six months after being arrested by Japanese authorities.
Nissan alleged Ghosn had under-reported his income, diverted corporate investment funds for private use, and misused company money.
In April 2019, Ghosn was placed under house arrest in Japan after a stint in a jail cell, lasting 130 days before he managed to escape with help from a US father and son team who hid the former executive in a large box.
Ghosn fled to his homeland of Lebanon which does not have an extradition treaty with Japan.
In July 2021, Michael and Peter Taylor were sentenced to jail time in Japan for assisting Ghosn’s escape, receiving two-year and 20-month sentences respectively.
While five international arrest warrants were reportedly issued by a French magistrate in April this year, Ghosn continues to live a relatively normal life as a free man in Lebanon.
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