Ghosn says his caper sounds like a movie

If you think Carlos Ghosn's dramatic escape from Japan is the stuff Hollywood makes movies about, Ghosn apparently agrees with you. And he was talking about the screenplay potential in the midst of making the escape, a Turkish jet executive testified in court.

Okan Kosemen, one of seven people on trial in Turkey for allegedly helping the former Nissan chairman flee to Lebanon in 2019, claimed he cooperated only because he thought his family could be in danger, Reuters reported. Kosemen told the court that he learned of Ghosn's presence on a private jet headed from Japan to Istanbul while it was en route and that he accompanied Ghosn on the second leg to Beirut.

"Carlos asked me how much the plane cost ... and told me about Hollywood producers who want to make this escape a movie," Kosemen said.

A separate case playing out in a Massachusetts federal court provided more details last week about how Ghosn arranged to be smuggled inside a box from his home in Tokyo to the Osaka airport. Prosecutors said Ghosn wired $862,500 last year from a Paris bank account to a company managed by Peter Taylor, one of two men Japan is trying to extradite from the U.S. for allegedly helping Ghosn escape house arrest.

Taylor's father, Michael Taylor, a U.S. Army Special Forces veteran and private security specialist, also is fighting extradition. The two men have been held for six weeks in a jail in Massachusetts.