The former boss of Nissan and Renault reveals how evaded house arrest to flee to Lebanon.
At 10.30pm on a cold December night in 2019, a former titan of the global car industry lay bundled inside a box on board a plane, waiting to flee Japan."The 30 minutes waiting in the box on the plane, waiting for it to take off, was probably the longest wait I've ever experienced in my life."
Documentary series Storyville details his extraordinary rise and sudden fall in Carlos Ghosn: The Last Flight which will be shown on BBC 4 on Wednesday 14 July.Describing the moment of his arrest at Toyko airport three years ago, Mr Ghosn said: "It's like you're being hit by a bus or something really very traumatic happened to you.Mr Ghosn was taken to the Tokyo Detention Centre where he was given prison clothes and confined to a cell.
He said the idea of using a large box that would normally contain musical instruments "was the most logical one, particularly that around this time there were a lot of concerts in Japan". "You can imagine I had to go places where I never been, buy clothes I've never bought," he said. "All of this was part of how do you give yourself a maximum of chance of being successful and absolutely not drawing any attention to yourself."From Tokyo, Mr Ghosn travelled by bullet train to Osaka where a private jet was waiting at the local airport to depart. But first, the box, which was waiting for Mr Ghosn at a nearby hotel.
In all, Mr Ghosn reckons he was in the box for around an hour and a half, though it felt like it lasted "one year and a half".The private jet took off on time, and Mr Ghosn - now free from his confines - flew through the night, swapped planes in Turkey before landing in Beirut the next morning.
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