A lawyer for 3 individuals who had been charged with serving to former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan has advised NHK they had been acquitted by a Turkish court docket in a retrial.
Ghosn reportedly fled from Japan to Lebanon through Turkey on a personal jet in 2019. He was out on bail in Tokyo on the time whereas awaiting trial for alleged monetary misconduct.
A Turkish court docket in 2021 sentenced the three individuals — an government at an Istanbul-based jet agency and the 2 pilots who flew Ghosn to Turkey — to 50 months in jail for migrant smuggling.
The three appealed the ruling, saying they had been unaware Ghosn can be on board.
The lawyer advised NHK that an appeals court docket ordered the retrial and despatched the case again to the decrease court docket, which acquitted the three in late April.
Three others, together with two pilots who flew Ghosn from Turkey to Lebanon, had been additionally indicted over his escape, however had been discovered not responsible in February 2021.
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