Inside Carlos Ghosn’s Great Escape: A Train, Planes and a Big Black Box

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“This is impossible.' Inside the risky mission that smuggled Carlos Ghosn out of Tokyo by plane, train and music box.

After months of planning and millions of dollars in costs, Carlos Ghosn climbed into a large, black case with holes drilled in the bottom. He had just traveled by train 300 miles from his court-approved Tokyo home to Osaka, Japan.

It was Sunday evening, Dec. 29, the moment of truth in a plan so audacious that some of its own organizers worried at times it wouldn’t work. A team of private security experts hired to spirit Mr. Ghosn out of Japan hadn’t done a dry run of their scheme to sneak the box containing the former auto...

 

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I’m sensing a future car model is in the works. Too bad Porsche has a lock on the name. Trunkster?

The new Head Roadie mantra: Guitars check Keyboards check Drums check Fugitive check...

Amazing!!

I see a movie in the makings!

Reminds me of Oleg Gordievsky' escape.

Deception

Great article. Thanks!

rescue me from middle class into being rich

And who doesn’t love a great escape?!? Congrats!

Big in Japan

Quite a story

I loved the podcast about it on “The Journal” yesterday about this

Successful, huh?

I've been trying to wrap my head around this, how do you escape a country you're wanted in and been prosecuted by, like you have to go through an airport or something, someone had to have noticed or recognised him surely, maybe he was scared of being Epsteined in his cell

This should be a movie lol

netflix

Well, clearly THIS is a NetFlix movie waiting to happen.

Motion picture on the way

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