James Jones, the director of the docuseries 'Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn,' spoke with ABC News Live about the fugitive auto executive.
Former Renault Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn walks near his house, Oct. 22, 2020, in Beirut, Lebanon.Carlos Ghosn's rise from a titan in the automobile industry to an international fugitive has been chronicled in the press for years and shrouded in mystery.in 2019 while in custody over alleged illicit accounting, money laundering and other corruption charges.
ABC NEWS LIVE: First, set up the scale of this for us. Just how powerful was Carlos Ghosn before he went on the run? ABC NEWS LIVE: So tell us about how you managed to get access to Carlos Ghosn, who is still wanted, and how you were able to convince him that he should participate. JONES: So, I think we tell the whole scope of the story. We knew all the evidence, but crucially, we then got all the key players on camera. So we got Carlos and his wife, Carol, but we also got Mike Taylor, the mastermind, [the] former Green Beret of the escape, who, when we started back in summer 2021, had just been extradited to Japan. He's a man who got Carlos Ghosn out, and effectively ended up swapping places with him and spending the best part of two years in Japanese prison.
And, it's much harder for him now to say, you know, this is a stitch-up, this is a conspiracy. The French justice system is internationally respected, and if they have issued an arrest warrant for him, he now looks like a fugitive on the run from his own wrongdoing rather than a victim of injustice.
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