Carlos Ghosn: Le Cost Killer’s great jail break

Carlos Ghosn, the former Nissan boss charged with fraud, fled captivity in Tokyo and is now a fugitive in Lebanon. His memoirs should make for fascinating reading.

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When Carlos Ghosn was languishing in jail in Tokyo last year he was reported by Le Figaro to be like “a lion in a cage” – pacing his 16ft x 10ft cell and telling the few influential figures who agreed to meet him to “get me out of here”. In the end, he pulled off that stunt himself – engineering an “audacious flit” to the Lebanon, by way of Turkey, having made a mockery of the supposedly water-tight surveillance under which he had been bailed, says the FT. The only pity, given that Ghosn, 65, was accused of “a big fiddle” was that, contrary to early reports, the former Renault-Nissan boss was not smuggled out of his Tokyo house in a large musical instrument case.

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Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.

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