Xinhua News Agency, Beirut, January 9 (Reporter Li Liangyong) Lebanese prosecutors issued a travel ban on carlos ghosn, the former chairman of Nissan Motor Company, on the 9th, forbidding him to leave Lebanon.
According to Lebanese National News Agency, Lebanese prosecutor Ghassan Oeidat interrogated Ghosn in Beirut on the same day on the "red wanted notice" issued by Interpol against Ghosn. Subsequently, Oeidat decided to allow Ghosn to live in Lebanon, but prohibited him from leaving the country.
The report said that Oeidat will ask the Japanese side to provide the case file about Ghosn for research to decide whether to take other necessary measures.
According to Lebanese LBCI TV, Ghosn said later that day that he would fully cooperate with the Lebanese judicial department.
Ghosn, 65, holds passports from Brazil, France and Lebanon. In November 2018, Ghosn was arrested in Japan on suspicion of concealing huge personal income and misappropriating company funds for private expenditure. Ghosn himself denied all the charges. In April 2019, Ghosn was arrested again. Later, the court granted Ghosn bail, but asked him not to leave Japan. The Japanese court was scheduled to hear Ghosn’s case in April 2020, but Ghosn left Japan and arrived in Lebanon at the end of 2019.
There is no extradition agreement between Lebanon and Japan. Albert Serhan, Minister of Justice of the caretaker government of Lebanon, said on the 7th that Ghosn entered Lebanon legally and lived in Lebanon equally legally. On the 8th, Ghosn denied all the Japanese accusations against him at a press conference in Beirut, and expressed his intention to live in Lebanon permanently. This is his first public appearance since he arrived in Lebanon at the end of 2019.
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