Ghosn Fled Japan in Yamaha Bass Case

Carlos Ghosn, president of Nissan Motor Company, accused of hiding profits, transferring investment losses to Nissan and embezzling the company’s money, escaped from Japan at the end of December to his home country Lebanon.

Meantime, the Japanese authorities pledged to follow him and issued an international notice required for him and his wife, Carole.

The former carmaker executive and runaway CEO refused to reveal how he managed to slip past the security of the Japanese airport, yet, reports confirm that he left the country through a private plane lounge at Kansai Airport in western Japan hidden in a double bass case that was too large to pass an X-ray scanner.

Earlier reports, which Ghosn rejected, stated that he was carried out from his Tokyo home in a double bass box.

The world's largest piano maker, Yamaha, has warned people against trying to squeeze inside musical instrument cases after reports that Ghosn escaped from Japan inside one.

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"We will not mention the reason but, there were many tweets about climbing inside the cases of large musical instruments. A warning after any unfortunate accident would be too late, so we ask everyone not to try it," Yamaha said in a post on Twitter.

Yamaha, which makes musical instruments, including pianos double bass, drums and heavy amplifiers, thanked people in a second tweet for admiring its first tweet, which has been retweeted more than 50k times. Also reminding followers that instrument cases are for instruments, not for people.

Meantime, Yamaha corporation stock price fell by 0.16 percent at the end today's trading to record 6,140 JPY.