MNG Jet, the Turkish private airline operator, said former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn hired two aircraft to flee Japan.

MNG Jet today filed a criminal complaint on the incident, the day after Turkish police arrested seven people, including four pilots, to investigate former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn's transit in Istanbul on the way to escape. from Japan to Lebanon.

In the complaint, MNG Jet said an employee of the airline had forged a flight charter to remove Ghosn's name from the document, confirming the hire of two of their aircraft to serve Ghosn's flight. is illegal.

"Mr. Ghosn's name does not appear on the record of any flight," MNG Jet said. Their two jets were leased to two "almost unrelated" customers, one of which traveled from Osaka, Japan to Istanbul, Turkey, and the other from Istanbul to Beirut. , Lebanon.

The company added that after learning that the two aircraft were leased to former Nissan chairman, they opened an internal investigation. An employee of MNG Jet later acknowledged the falsified records and asserted "self-acting in a personal capacity".

Japanese broadcaster NHK today also cited a source of the investigation, saying the surveillance camera filmed Ghosn leaving his home in Tokyo alone just before he escaped. The video was filmed around noon on December 29, 2019 and the former Nissan chairman did not return home afterwards.

Former Nissan chairman on December 31 announced that he fled to Beirut, the Lebanese capital to escape Japan's "fraudulent judicial system". The Turkish Interior Ministry is investigating Ghosn's transit in Istanbul while fleeing from Japan to Lebanon.

Ghosn said he will hold a press conference to announce the escape from Japan on January 8.

The former chairman of Nissan Motor Group was arrested in Tokyo in November 2018 and faces four allegations, including concealing income and self-interest through payments to dealers in the Middle East. Nissan fired him, internal investigations revealed misconduct including understating wages when he was chief executive and transferred $ 5 million from Nissan funds into a profitable account for Ghosn. .

He was released on bail in March 2019 but was arrested again on charges of misappropriating Nissan. By the end of April 2019, Ghosn had to pay $ 8.9 million in bail to get bail, but he had to follow strict rules. He was monitored 24/7 by camera systems installed outside his home, banned from going abroad, and restricted from using technology equipment. Ghosn fled Japan while on bail awaiting trial in April.