Former Macron Aide Linked to Carlos Ghosn’s Dramatic Japan Escape

A few days after his departure from Japan, Carlos Ghosn’s escape remains a mystery. To deceive the vigilance of the Japanese authorities and elude customs services, the former boss of Renault and Nissan had hidden himself in a suitcase boarded on a private jet to leave the Land of the Rising Sun where he was under house arrest.

According to the weekly Marianne, Carlos Ghosn would have benefited from numerous supporters, including a Lebanese intelligence company, in connection with Emmanuel Macron’s former bodyguard.

Suspected, the former deputy chief of staff of the French president denied this information, while admitting links with the intelligence company and the Turkish businessman, owner of one of the two jets used, specifies the same weekly. "I don’t know what it is, but it looks like good stuff," he wrote on his Twitter account.

For now, seven people have been identified following the escape of the French boss. Five of the accused, including four crew members and an employee of a Turkish aircraft leasing company, were arrested in Turkey. Meanwhile, the two American mercenaries, one of Lebanese origin and the other married to a Lebanese woman, both former special forces, remain untraceable.