'The plan failed,' Ghosn's lawyer wrote. The incident 'threw mud on his lifetime of fame.'
Carlos Ghosn emerged from his more than 100 days in a Tokyo detention center dressed as a Japanese laborer earlier this week.Japan's entertainers seized on the incident, with numerous TV shows mocking Ghosn's disguise.," Carlos Ghosn emerged after more than 100 days in a Tokyo detention center, flanked by guards, curiously dressed as a Japanese construction worker earlier this week.
But the stunt, designed so that the Brazilian-born former Nissan and Renault executive could evade onlookers, backfired, says his lawyer, Takashi Takano. The lawyer wrote the comments in a blog post translated by media"The disguise was all planned and carried out by me," Takano wrote."I feel sorry about that ... due to my amateur plan, the fame he has built over a lifetime was tainted.
The lawyer dressed him that way to avoid his being noticed and potentially followed or flooded with onlookers and press,"The plan failed," Takano wrote, according to Bloomberg. The incident"threw mud" on Ghosn's"lifetime of fame," Takano added.
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