SocietyEx-Green Beret used concert as cover for Ghosn escape
Taylor tried to 'tip' airport staffer with wad of 10,000 yen bills, Tokyo prosecutors say
Former Nissan Motor chief Carlos Ghosn was reportedly smuggled onto an Istanbul-bound private jet while hidden in a speaker box. © Reuters
HITOSHI ITO and WATARU KAWASAKI, Nikkei staff writers
TOKYO -- "We're violinists," Michael Taylor, the former Green Beret who engineered Carlos Ghosn's daring 2019 escape from Japan, told a terminal manager at Kansai International Airport while on his way to ferry the former Nissan Motor chief out of the country in a subwoofer box.