{"id":12640,"date":"2020-01-05T14:50:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T05:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/05\/japan-promises-full-inquiry-into-regrettable-carlos-ghosn-escape"},"modified":"2020-01-05T14:50:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T05:50:36","slug":"carlos-ghosns-network-of-influence-made-it-easy-to-flee-japan-say-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12640","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Ghosn&#8217;s network of influence made it &#8216;easy to flee&#8217; Japan, say prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The businessman should have been kept in jail, prosecutors claim, because he had \u2018financial power and foreign bases\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Ghosn should have been kept in jail because his network of connections made it \u201ceasy for him to flee\u201d house arrest, prosecutors in Japan have said.<\/p>\n<p>In their first comments since the former Nissan chief\u2019s audacious escape from Japan to Lebanon, the prosecutors said his flight had vindicated their widely criticised decision to keep Ghosn in custody for much of the time after his arrest in 2018 on charges of financial irregularities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/05\/japan-promises-full-inquiry-into-regrettable-carlos-ghosn-escape\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The businessman should have been kept in jail, prosecutors claim, because he had \u2018financial power and foreign bases\u2019Carlos Ghosn should have been kept in jail because his network of connections made it \u201ceasy for him to flee\u201d house arrest, prosecutors i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,702,6,1028,88,869],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-automotive-industry","category-business","category-carlos-ghosn","category-japan","category-lebanon"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12641,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions\/12641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}