Outflows have seen Ghosn’s fortune shrink by 40% since he was arrested more than a year ago at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, according to estimates by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His fortune is now calculated to be about US$70mil, down from around US$120mil at the time of his first court appearance a year ago. (File pic shows Ghosn's pressconference in Beirut being projected in Japan.)
LONDON: Life on the run is proving expensive for Carlos Ghosn. The cost of his escape included US$14mil in forfeited bail money while the operation that saw him celebrate New Year’s Eve in Beirut could have cost US$15mil or more.
That includes US$350,000 for the private jet that spirited the former auto executive from Osaka to Istanbul and millions of dollars for his multi-country extraction that would have taken a team of as many as 25 people half a year to plan, according to a private security expert who said he wasn’t involved and asked not to be identified given the nature of the operation.
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