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After Carlos Ghosn’s escape, Japan allows GPS tracking of people released on bail

The former Renault and Nissan executive has taken refuge in Lebanon since fleeing Japan in 2019.

Japan enacted a law on Wednesday, required since the spectacular 2019 jailbreak of former Renault and Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn, that allows courts to track the GPS location of defendants released on bail. The text allows the installation of geolocation devices to prevent people released on bail from fleeing Japanese territory.

Defendants will be prohibited from removing or destroying GPS trackers, as well as entering areas prohibited by courts, such as ports and airports. In case of rape, the persons concerned face arrest and a maximum prison sentence of one year.

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Geolocation of people released on bail and people under house arrest exists in many countries. Calls have been made in Japan to allow it, after Carlos Ghosn fled the country in December 2019.

“To prevent these types of cases from happening again, we need to discuss how to close the loopholes in the system, raising the bail amount to the value of all the defendant’s assets and adopting an electronic monitoring mode with GPS tracking,” he said. Japan’s most important official. the widely read conservative newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun suggested at the time.

The incredible escape of Carlos Ghosn, aboard private jets rented by accomplices, “proves that the rich who have support manage to flee abroad, no matter how rigorous the bail conditions imposed by the courts are,” Tsunehiko Maeda had deduced then. , ex-prosecutor

The businessman was out on bail in Tokyo with a ban on leaving Japan pending trial for alleged financial misappropriation while at the helm of Nissan. The French-Lebanese-Brazilian, 69, has found refuge in Lebanon, a country that he does not extradite his nationals.

An open judicial investigation in France led in April 2022 to an international arrest warrant against him for passive corruption, abuse of corporate assets, breach of trust and money laundering in an organized gang. The former leader questions these accusations of the French justice.

Author: Raphael Grably with AFP
Source: BFM TV

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