BEIRUT: Fugitive former car executive Carlos Ghosn said on Monday he was prepared for a lengthy process to clear his name with French authorities, and vowed to challenge an Interpol warrant that is barring him from travel outside of Lebanon.
Ghosn said the only questions he did not answer were those relating to the Japanese prosecution, on advice from his lawyers. "Obviously in these cases you are fighting against governments. They have means that you don't have. It requires a lot of money, and a lot of lawyers, it requires a lot of patience," he said.
Ghosn said he would only go back to Japan to clear his name if the legal system, where the conviction rate is 99per cent, was changed. On Monday a U.S. Army Special Forces veteran and his son pleaded guilty in Tokyo to charges they helped him flee, hidden in a box aboard a private jet. The pair, who are being held at the same jail in Tokyo where Ghosn was detained in 2018, could face up to three years in prison.
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