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The two Americans who helped former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn escape Japan told authorities at the airport that they were musicians who had a concert with late singer Michael Jackson in Turkey, Ghosn said on the Lebanese podcast Sarde After Dinner on Sunday.

“They told the authorities that they had music instruments in the box that were regulated for a concert as soon as they land and if the instrument were to pass through the scanner it would have delayed their performance in Turkey,” he added.

“[If the escape] was classical, it would have not worked, it worked because it was gutsy, I don’t talk about the story, because I don’t want to put any people who helped me at risk, I had to be something no one thought I would dare to try,” Ghosn added.

Ghosn added that the odds of escaping from Japan were very low, and the escape plot had to be bold.

Ghosn attracted international attention after he fled Japan in December 2019. Japanese prosecutors were investigating him for financial irregularities while CEO of Nissan. Ghosn later smuggled out of the country inside a box intended to transfer musical instruments, despite being under strict surveillance from authorities.

The episode with podcast Sarde After Dinner was taken down the next day at the request of the producers of “Carlos Ghosn: The Last Flight”, an exclusive documentary by MBC Group’s Shahid Video on Demand Service.

*Al Arabiya