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A judge in a federal court in the United States passes a motion to prevent the government from extraditing two Massachusetts men to Japan, whom it accuses of helping to smuggle former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn.
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Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn.
A federal court judge in the United States approved Thursday a request to prevent the government from extraditing two Massachusetts men to Japan, whom it accuses of helping to smuggle former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn out of the country while awaits trial on charges of financial misconduct.
Boston court judge Indira Talwani accepted a request to delay the extradition made by former United States Special Forces defense team Michael Taylor and his son Peter, shortly before they were transferred on a trip to Japan. .
The US State Department informed the lawyers yesterday that it agreed to hand over “Taylor” and his son to the Japanese authorities.
Taliwani also suspended the extradition decision after Taylor’s urgent request to appeal the decision.
US authorities arrested the two men in May at the request of Japanese authorities.
Federal prosecutors estimated in court documents that “there is a high risk that they will escape, and they should remain in custody pending an extradition request to Japan.”
Prosecutors say the two men facilitated Ghosn’s escape from Japan on a private flight, hidden in a box, on December 29. Ghosn faces charges of embezzlement and was released from prison on bail before fleeing to Lebanon.
According to US court documents, it appears that they helped him hide inside a large black box, similar to a musical instrument box, and then they put him inside a private plane, and at that time inspection was not mandatory for this type of instrument. .
Ghosn arrived in Lebanon, his hometown, on December 30, 2019, which is not linked to Japan with an extradition agreement.
Ghosn confirmed at the time that he was in Lebanon after leaving Japan, where he was under house arrest after being accused of financial irregularities.
He said in a statement that “he was no longer a hostage to a partial Japanese judicial system,” noting that he “did not escape justice, but freed himself from injustice and political persecution.”
Since his arrest last year in Tokyo, his lawyers and family have strongly condemned the conditions of his detention and the treatment to which he was subjected.
Ghosn was arrested in Tokyo in November 2018, accused of declaring a salary millions of dollars less than what he was receiving and using the company’s money for personal purposes, and had set April 2020 for the start of his trial.
Ghosn, for his part, denies wrongdoing and has accused Nissan officials who oppose his plan to further merge with the French company Renault of conspiring against him.
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