Former Nissan chief executive officer Carlos Ghosn has been slapped with a travel ban by Lebanon, a country which he escaped to after being smuggled out of Japan, the Guardian newspaper has reported.
The development marks another twist in a gripping legal saga that centres on Ghosn's alleged financial wrongdoing.
It comes just a day after he addressed the media about his woes, saying that he was a victim of the arbitrary Japanese criminal-justice system.
"Obviously I don't consider myself a prisoner in Lebanon," he told reporters as quoted by CNN.
"I'm happy to be here. I'm with my friends, my family. I don't feel at all unhappy. I'm ready to stay a long time in Lebanon, " he added.
Interpol had issued a red notice to the Lebanese authorities requesting his arrest.
Japan has strongly rejected the criticisms leveled against it by the Mr Ghosn, who is considered a titan of he global car industry.
"The system was designed to avoid an innocent person to suffer from the burden of bearing judicial expenses”, Masako Mori, the Japanese Justice minister said as quoted by the Guardian.
“The basic human rights of a suspect are duly taken into account by giving adequate break to the suspect during the interrogation, " he added.