Lebanese justice issues final decision against Carlos Ghosn on accusation of visiting Israel

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Lebanese justice has put an end to the prosecution of the former president of the “Renault-Nissan” complex, Carlos Ghosn, for the offense of entering Israel, on the basis of a notification submitted by three lawyers against him at the beginning of the report. year after arriving in Beirut after fleeing Japan.

Agence France-Presse quoted a judicial source according to which “the Attorney General of Cassation, Judge Ghassan Oweidat, has decided to save the papers and not to prosecute Ghosn in the crimes attributed to him in terms of entry into the enemy’s country and deal with him economically, due to the passage of ten years since the alleged crime “More than ten years have passed.

Lawyers Hassan Bazzi, Jad Tohme and Ali Abbas last January provided information against Ghosn for the offense of “entering Israel, dealing with the enemy and establishing commercial relations with him”, at the following a visit he made in 2008 in his capacity as director of the French company “Renault” to sign a partnership agreement. With an Israeli car manufacturer.

But Ghosn defended his visit, which included a meeting with former Israeli President Shimon Peres and other officials. He said he had gone in his capacity as “Frenchman under an agreement signed between Renault and an Israeli company” and apologized for the visit at the same time.

Carlos Ghosn has been living in Beirut since the end of 2019, after fleeing Japan, where he was arrested in November 2018 and spent 130 days in prison.