Former Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors CEO Carlos Ghosn, who was under house arrest over financial wrongdoing, disappeared in Japan only to reappear in Lebanon.
Reports of his disappearance and reappearance sound like something straight from a James Bond movie, shocking even Japanese officials.
The Guardian reported that the embattled CEO was able to pull off the daring feat by hiding in a musical instrument case that was large enough to hold him and then smuggled out.
His wife was singled out in the Guardian report as the mastermind of the plan and was helped to carry it out by a Gregorian band.
Ghosn's Japanese lawyer Hironaka Junichiro also expressed surprise at how his client managed to escape to Lebanon.
“It would have been difficult for him to do this without the assistance of some large organisation,” Junichiro said as quoted by the Guardian. “I want to ask him. How could he do this to us? I wanted to prove he was innocent. But when I saw his statement in the press, I thought he doesn’t trust Japan’s courts, " Hinoraka added.
The ex-Nissan CEO expressed his doubts at the ability of the Japanese courts to grant him a fair trial.
Authorities in Japan say that Gohsn deliberately falsified documents about his pay with a view of enriching himself.
The Business Insider reported that the profits of Nissan- Mitsubishi Motors drastically reduced following Ghosn's arrest.