Carlos Ghosn, once the Chairman of Nissan and now a bit of a fugitive, fled Japan in 2019 after being charged by authorities for allegations of misappropriated funds pertaining to the automotive firm. In December of 2019, Ghosn evaded the watchful eyes of Japenese authorities in an exfil plan executed by former US military special forces contractors in a made for the movies escape. Reportedly, Ghosn was removed from house arrest in a box and then carted off to a waiting private jet.
Today, in a report from Bloomberg, it is being claimed that these same contractors were paid in part in cryptocurrency.
According to the report, Anthony Ghosn paid Peter Taylor and his father Michael Taylor $500,000 in crypto via a Coinbase account. This amount, when combined with a wire transfer, made the fee for the escape from Japan, total $1.36 million.
Ghosn is currently ensconced in Lebanon, a country that is not inclined to extradite him to Japan.
The Taylors are now a target of the US government as Japan has asked for them to be extradited to Japan. Prosecutors revealed the information as part of a bail hearing for the Taylors.
