A Turkish court has convicted two pilots and an official from a private airline over their involvement in former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn’s dramatic escape out of Japan in 2019.
The court in Istanbul sentenced each of them to four years and two months in prison on Wednesday.
It acquitted two other pilots of the charge of “illegally smuggling a migrant”. Two flight attendants were also acquitted of failing to report a crime.
He was flown from Osaka to Istanbul on a private plane and then transferred onto another plane to Beirut, where he arrived on December 30, 2019. He is believed to have hidden inside a large box.
The convicted pilots, Noyan Pasin and Bahri Kutlu Somek, had maintained their innocence throughout the trial.
They, the other two pilots and the flight attendants all denied involvement in plans to help Ghosn flee and insisted they did not know that he was on board their flights.
Source: aljazeera.com
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