Lebanese justice stops prosecution against Carlos Ghosn for visit to Israel

Lebanese justice has stopped the prosecution of car tycoon Carlos Ghosn for entering Israel, based on a report submitted by three lawyers against him earlier this year after arriving in Beirut after fleeing Japan.

Agence France-Presse quoted a judicial source who reportedly said today, Tuesday, that “the prosecutor of cassation, judge Ghassan Oweidat, had decided to save the papers and not to prosecute Ghosn in the crimes against him. awarded in terms of entering and dealing with the enemy country, due to the ten-year passage of the alleged crime, “meaning its downfall By the passage of more than ten years.

In January, lawyers Hassan Bazzi, Jad Tohme and Ali Abbas filed a report against Ghosn for the offense of “entering Israel, dealing with the Israeli enemy and establishing trade relations with him”, following of a visit he made in 2008 as director of the French company “Renault” to sign a partnership agreement with an Israeli car manufacturer. .

At a press conference in Beirut after his controversial escape from Japan, Ghosn defended his visit, which included a meeting with former Israeli President Shimon Peres and other officials. He said he had become “a Frenchman, on the basis of an agreement signed between Renault and an Israeli company”. He apologized for the visit at the same time.

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

Japanese justice has accused the businessman of Lebanese, French and Brazilian nationalities with four counts, including the non-disclosure of all his income, the use of Nissan money he had saved from bankruptcy to make payments for personal acquaintance and embezzlement of company funds for personal gain.

Source: “AFP”

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