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A comment on Carlos Ghosn’s Brazen Escape from Japan. Parent comment

Re:Carlos Ghosn’s Brazen Escape from Japan by JumpCrisscross on Sunday August 07, 2022 @08:50PM (#32381385)
> Can someone ELI5 what exactly he apparently did wrong?

Basically Enron except he stole the money [1]. (Also, less of it.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ghosn#Initial_arrest

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Re:Carlos Ghosn’s Brazen Escape from Japan by bamboozled on Sunday August 07, 2022 @10:05PM (#32381778)
I'm not familiar with Enron, but he just simply stole money into his personal accounts?
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Re:Carlos Ghosn’s Brazen Escape from Japan by JumpCrisscross on Monday August 08, 2022 @12:30AM (#32382400)
> he just simply stole money into his personal accounts?

Yup! (I mean, it went to subsidiaries for pay his family and his own entities. Or was laundered to pay for a party at Versailles. Fairly standard stuff.)

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