I say he used to be in charge because he left Japan, and his job at the end of December. He is accused of hiding earnings, transferring investment losses to Nissan and misappropriating company funds. It would appear that he was tapping into the company cash register, in other words.
So he left town in a huff. Or, more correctly, he left in a musical instrument case.
Media reports say that he contorted himself inside a metal case made for an instrument. The story was, his helpers smuggled him through a private lounge in Kansai Airport in western Japan. He was reportedly hidden in a large speaker box that just happened to be too large to fit through the facility’s X-ray scanner.
Clever, eh?
The criminal downside is that the Japanese authorities are hot on his trail; they've sworn to run him down and they have put out an international wanted notice for Ghosn and his wife Carole.
And, for those trying to emulate his great escape, this bit of advice from the Yamaha Corporation, makers of these giant musical equipment cases. They say don't try to do like that!
“We won’t mention the reason, but there have been many tweets about climbing inside large musical instrument cases. A warning after any unfortunate accident would be too late, so we ask everyone not to try it,” Yamaha's corporate twitter tweeted.
And then, that tweet was reposted 50,000 times, and the ever-polite Yamahamians thanked people for the loving attention, and reminded one and all that their instrument cases are made for musical instruments and not people, no matter how musical they may be.
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