- ARAB NEWS
- 01 May 2025
Since 1975
Arab News, Tokyo
The Lebanese government had requested the Japanese government to hand over Carlos Ghosn to Lebanon until shortly before he did the great escape, but the Japanese side had refused, according to Fuji TV Network on Thursday.
The channel quoted Japanese government officials as saying that the Lebanon government had made several requests to the Japanese government to deport Ghosn.
According to Fuji TV, on December 20, Japan’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Keisuke Suzuki visited Lebanon and met President Michel Aoun, who had sought Ghosn’s repatriation, but Suzuki said, “it’s an issue of the Japanese justice department.”
A government official said: "Escape at this time is accidental and irrelevant."
