Re:Carlos Ghosn Flees to Lebanon to Escape Japan Legal System
by ordinaryperson on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @10:25AM
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I agree, it was odd the way they immediately threw the book at him.
Look at the Takata airbag executives. Their decisions resulted in the actual deaths of human beings and they were not treated as harshly.
Re:Carlos Ghosn Flees to Lebanon to Escape Japan Legal System
by ekianjo on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @10:48AM
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> It seems very rare, if not unheard of, in Japan for a CEO to be arrested and thrown to prison the way he was.
Yeah, never happens, just like you almost never see any big profile politician beyond bars in Japan. And Japanese CEOs are pretty much affiliated to politicians, so there you have it.
By the way it is astonishing how much the press in Japan is painting Gohn as a culprit on an ongoing basis despite any actual trial and all. The media is completely sold to power here.
Re:Carlos Ghosn Flees to Lebanon to Escape Japan Legal System
by song on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @12:50PM
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The one other case of a Japanese CEO being treated this way I can think of is Takafumi Horie from Livedoor but it does seem rare.
Re:Carlos Ghosn Flees to Lebanon to Escape Japan Legal System
by LunaSea on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @10:55AM
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So he got a special treatment, then fled, thus justifying the special treatment.
Re:Carlos Ghosn Flees to Lebanon to Escape Japan Legal System
by tcgv on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @11:42AM
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From what's being discussed in this thread it's more the other way around, he fled because he was receiving special treatment, had him being given a fair prosecution he wouldn't feel the need to flee Japan
It seems very rare, if not unheard of, in Japan for a CEO to be arrested and thrown to prison the way he was.
For example the 3 former execs of Tepco who have been charged with criminal negligence in relation with the Fukushima disaster have never been arrested. I don't think that execs at Kobe Steel who knew about falsified data regarding defective airbags were arrested. Etc.
On the other hand, Olympus CEO, first foreign CEO, was fired for blowing the whistle on accounting fraud within the company...