TOKYO—Japanese authorities, in their first public comments on Carlos Ghosn’s escape, said he would have received a fair trial and fled Japan because he didn’t want to pay the price for his alleged wrongdoing.
“The defendant Ghosn broke his own promise that he would definitely appear before the court and fled the country. What this shows is simple: He didn’t want to submit to the judgment of our nation’s courts and sought to avoid the punishment for his own crimes,” said Tokyo deputy chief prosecutor Takahiro Saito. “There…
