TOKYO: The usually staid Japanese media lambasted the “cowardly” Carlos Ghosn on Wednesday, after the tycoon jumped bail and fled to Lebanon to avoid trial in Japan. “Running away is a cowardly act that mocks Japan’s justice system,” said the Yomiuri Shimbun, with Ghosn facing multiple charges of financial misconduct — all of which he denies. The liberal Tokyo Shimbun also said Ghosn’s actions had made a mockery of the Japanese justice system. “The defendant Ghosn insists he escaped political persecution… but travelling abroad without permission is against the conditions of his bail, and mocks the Japanese justice system,” the paper wrote. And in fact Ghosn was bailed twice, once in March and a second time after he was re-arrested in April.

Source: Manila Times January 01, 2020 04:52 UTC