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The Escape Plan
Bail out as the last resort — you got to do what you got to do
☝️ The Master Plan
The New Year’s Eve in Tokyo was not so peaceful for some people. The celebrity executive who was known as Le Cost Killer and saved Nissan from bankruptcy, a big shot in the car making industry, Carlos Ghosn, was executing his master escape plan to jump bail from Japan. And he made it — he fled to Turkey first with a private jet and then successfully landed in Lebanon.
How did it happen?
Did he take a metro to go to the airport?
If he did, how was it possible no one recognized him?
Was he hidden in the musical box all the way out?
Did the Japanese officials learn this news from the media?
So many things went wrong, and so many questions were spinning in everyone’s head.
“No one comes out of the Carlos Ghosn affair smelling of roses”, I quite like the title that The Economist put about the run of Mr. Ghosn. It is so true that this drama has put Renault-Nissan, Japan’s authorities and Mr. Ghosn himself all in very vulnerable positions. No one is a winner.
