Carlos Ghosn Jumps Bail

"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired) 12/30/2019 at 23:11 • Filed to: No white broncos were harmed

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Just when you thought 2019 couldn’t get any more 2019, friend of Oppo and former Renault/Nissan head honcho has fled Japan for Lebanon.

ETA: Ghosn’s statement:

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Ssfancyfresh > someassemblyrequired 12/30/2019 at 23:29

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This is awesome

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > someassemblyrequired 12/30/2019 at 23:29

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A Brazilian-born Frenchman of Lebanese ancestry. That clears that up, I always sort of wondered. 

daender > someassemblyrequired 12/30/2019 at 23:31

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Well...that just escalated !

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > someassemblyrequired 12/30/2019 at 23:37

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“I have not fled justice — I have escaped injustice”

Alternative lifestyles

someassemblyrequired > daender 12/30/2019 at 23:42

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get some popcorn

someassemblyrequired > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 12/30/2019 at 23:45

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I’m fairly certain he had some government-supplied help - likely from the French.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > someassemblyrequired 12/30/2019 at 23:48

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Japanese justice. Lebanese justice. It’s not so long ago that both would have had him beheaded...

CB > someassemblyrequired 12/30/2019 at 23:49

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I’m shocked someone would escape house arrest conditions. Absolutely shocked.

ranwhenparked > someassemblyrequired 12/30/2019 at 23:50

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How big are their diplomatic pouches? 

someassemblyrequired > ranwhenparked 12/30/2019 at 23:53

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Lebanese media reporting he was smuggled out in a case for musical instruments?  Must be a roadie case of some kind.

someassemblyrequired > CB 12/30/2019 at 23:55

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Honestly I’m surprised he didn’t do a runner way earlier in this process.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > someassemblyrequired 12/31/2019 at 00:01

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You won’t find me throwing too many stones. Not prison > prison. Give me some hookups, money, and sanctuary, and I’m all for dodging accountability.

ClassicDatsunDebate > someassemblyrequired 12/31/2019 at 00:01

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Welp, one mans justice is another mans injustice.  Usually depends on which side of the bars you stand.

Svend > someassemblyrequired 12/31/2019 at 00:04

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To be fair, the Japanese legal system is awful.

You can be held for 23 days without charge (initial 72hours, then ten days and a further 10 days added) ,

Lawyers are not allowed in the room during interrogation ,

Not legally bound to record the interrogation,

They can interrogate you from 10am to 11pm with police and prosecutors taking it in shifts to force a confession.

someassemblyrequired > Svend 12/31/2019 at 00:15

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Yep, if you are a foreigner suspected of a crime in Japan, you’re screwed, even if you are innocent.

Svend > someassemblyrequired 12/31/2019 at 00:23

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Many foreigners on lesser charges (non serious) are just encouraged to confess and get the ordeal over with sooner as sometimes the sentence is shorter than fighting the system.

DipodomysDeserti > Svend 12/31/2019 at 00:41

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Wonder how is compares to the Lebanon’s  judicial system.

facw > someassemblyrequired 12/31/2019 at 00:50

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I’m torn, because yeah the Japanese justice system isn’t the most fair, especially to foreigners, and yeah if he were Japanese they probably wouldn’t have brought these charges even if he is guilty, but I’m also not a fan the rich being able to buy their way out of crime and just jet off to some non-extradition country. And from what I’ve read he probably was breaking the law, even if that sort of corruption is usually tolerated.  

Svend > DipodomysDeserti 12/31/2019 at 00:55

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I think Lebanons legal system would be more to what we know in our countries in that it’s based on the French judicial system, while there is also a degree of Islamic law it isn’t what many in the west have as a stereotype o f middle eastern countries. Which commonly is a one of an unjust, religious totalitarian country.

Though that’s assuming the Lebanese want or indeed have a case against him. The charges he faces in Japan may not even apply to Lebanon.

Japan will petition for Ghosns return, but Ghosn can simply apply that he wouldn’t be allowed a fair trial, on his return to Japan and Lebanon could block any extradition. 

DipodomysDeserti > Svend 12/31/2019 at 01:09

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The US Judicial system might be a little closer to the Japanese system than the French system. The difference being rich people can buy their way out of our system.

Svend > DipodomysDeserti 12/31/2019 at 01:46

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That’s just a shame and not a fair and just system. 

Your boy, BJR > someassemblyrequired 12/31/2019 at 03:30

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I like to imagine he jumped out of the window of his house while a rager  of a party was going on with a briefcase filled with cocaine in one hand and a snub nose .38 in the other.

someassemblyrequired > Your boy, BJR 12/31/2019 at 09:05

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I wonder who will play Ghosn in “Escape from Tokyo”...  can’t see Kurt Russell in the role.

The Ghost of Oppo > Svend 12/31/2019 at 09:21

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Too bad they didn’t arrest Logan Paul