Mar 11 (Japan Today) - Two Americans imprisoned in Japan for helping former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn avoid trial and escape to Lebanon are hoping to serve the rest of their time in the U.S.
The Boston-based attorney for Michael Taylor and his son Peter Taylor, Paul Kelly, said Thursday that the elder man was suffering from serious back pain and frostbite.
The U.S. Justice Department in October requested the Taylors, who were convicted in the same trial, be transferred to a U.S. prison.
"It's not been an easy time for them, between the extreme cold and the isolation," Kelly told The Associated Press.
"Japan has not acted on the transfer issue at all. If Japan were to grant the transfer, then Michael and Peter would be literally taken immediately out of Japan and brought back to the United States," he said.
Japan's Justice Ministry must agree for the transfer to be carried out. The ministry had no immediate comment.
Ghosn fled to Lebanon in late 2019, hiding in a music instrument box aboard a private jet. ...continue reading
