By jumping bail, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who had long insisted on his innocence, has now committed a clear crime and can never return to
Japan without going to jail.
“So he now has burnt his bridges to Japan,” Stephen Givens, a lawyer and expert on Japan's legal and corporate systems, said Wednesday.
How exactly Ghosn fled surveillance in Japan and popped up in
Lebanon, or who might have directed the dramatic escape, remains unclear.