Duo who helped former Nissan chief flee Japan on trial

Duo who helped former Nissan chief flee Japan on trial

An American father-son duo accused of helping former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn jump bail and flee Japan admitted their role in the audacious escape in a Tokyo court on Monday. Former special forces operative Michael Taylor, 60, and his son Peter, 28, said they did not dispute the details of the indictment against them laid out by prosecutors in their first court appearance. While Ghosn is an internationally wanted fugitive now living in Lebanon after the 2019 escape, former US Army Green Beret Michael Taylor and his son Peter have been extradited from the United States to Japan and will appear at the Tokyo District Court on Monday afternoon. The two men face up to three years in prison if convicted of putting together the audacious escape of the one-time auto tycoon, whose 2018 arrest in Tokyo on financial misconduct charges made headlines around the world. Ghosn was out on bail while awaiting trial on four counts of financial misconduct, which he denies, when he managed to slip past authorities onto a private jet, transit in Turkey and land in Lebanon, which has no extradition treaty with Japan. The escape was hugely embarrassing for Japanese authorities, and prosecutors have termed