Ghosn’s escape more details

Dubai based company made a payment to the private jet operator. Former British serviceman  Mike Taylor and George Zayek, two private security contractors who accompanied Mr. Ghosn on escape from Japan.

Their involvement cost Mr. Ghosn’s audacious escape $20m in the escapes and forfeited bail and is believed to have involved his boarding a plane concealed in a black audio equipment box.

Mr. Doulas admitted yesterday he was linked to Al-Nitaq al-Akhdhar, saying his firms “ have cargo business with MNG”, a reference to the Turkish conglomerate whose holdings include a cargo company and the private jet service that supplied two planes that carried Mr. Ghosn to Beirut.

But he denied any involvement in the former auto executive’s escape “ Any payment we’ve made was for other logistics, cargo business, but we didn’t charter any aircraft”.

Mr. Ghosn’s escape involved a journey from Tokyo to Osaka by the Shinkansen, bullet train with a three-hour ride. Mr. Ghosn walked about 900 yards to a hotel, where he met two men, according to NHK and Nikkei. The three men then went to the Shinagawa railroad station, a major hub, and a little after 4:30 pm boarded a Shinkansen or high-speed bullet train, for Osaka, about 340 miles southwest of the capital.

Meanwhile, Japanese media reported that Mr. Ghosn’s escape involved a journey from Tokyo to Osaka by the Shinkansen, bullet train with a three-hour ride.

Carlos Ghosn’s escape from Japan is “unjustifiable” as he is thought to have left the country using “illegal methods”, the Japanese justice minister said.