More details have emerged about how the one-time car industry titan managed to slip out of Japan while awaiting trial.
Japan's justice minister Masako Mori said the businessman's"apparently illegal" departure was very regrettable and that there was no record of him leaving the country.She promised a thorough investigation and said authorities had issued an international notice for his arrest, adding that she had ordered immigration officials"to further tighten departure procedures".
Lebanon has said it received an Interpol arrest warrant for the businessman and that he entered the country legally. But he suffered a dramatic fall from grace when he was arrested in November 2018 and was subsequently ousted as boss.
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