2023-05-10 10:24:52
The former Renault and Nissan executive has taken refuge in Lebanon since fleeing Japan in 2019.
Japan enacted a law on Wednesday, demanded since the spectacular 2019 escape of ex-Renault and Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn, that allows courts to track the GPS location of people charged and released on bail. The text allows the installation of geolocation devices in order to prevent people on bail from fleeing Japanese territory.
Defendants will be prohibited from removing or destroying GPS trackers, as well as from entering areas prohibited to them by the courts, such as ports and airports. In the event of a violation, the persons in question expose themselves to detention and a maximum prison sentence of one year.
System flaws
The geolocation of individuals released on bail and people under house arrest exists in many countries. Calls have been made in Japan to allow it, after Carlos Ghosn fled the country in December 2019.
“To prevent this kind of case from happening again, we need to discuss how to close the loopholes in the system, raising the amount of bail to the value of all the defendant’s assets and adopting a monitoring mode electronics with GPS tracking,” Japan’s most widely read conservative newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun suggested at the time.
The incredible escape of Carlos Ghosn, aboard private jets rented by accomplices, “proves that the rich who have supports manage to flee abroad, no matter how rigorously the courts impose bail conditions “, had then deduced Tsunehiko Maeda, a former prosecutor.
The businessman was out on bail in Tokyo with a ban on leaving Japan pending trial for alleged financial malfeasance while at the helm of Nissan. The Franco-Lebanese-Brazilian, 69, has found refuge in Lebanon, a country that does not extradite its nationals.
A judicial investigation opened in France gave rise in April 2022 to an international arrest warrant against him for passive corruption, abuse of corporate assets, breach of trust and money laundering in an organized gang. The former leader disputes these accusations of French justice.
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