BEIRUT (AP) – A judge on Monday interrogated the disgraced carnate carlos Gon in Beirut a few days after Lebanon received a report of him wanted by Interpol, judicial officials said.
Lebanon received a new red alert from Interpol 10 days ago after French prosecutors in the Paris suburb of Nanterre said last month that it had issued an international arrest warrant for former Nissan and Renault executives and four others based on a 2019 investigation into money laundering and abuse of company assets.
Gosna was questioned about money laundering and benefiting from agreements with Nissan and Renault, and he was allowed to leave after questioning, court officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity under the rules.
Lebanese Judge Imad Cabalan, the state prosecutor of the Court of Cassation, asked the French authorities to provide details of the case against Gon, and “if it is proven that he committed money laundering and asset abuse,” the judge added, he will be tried in Lebanon. as he has Lebanese citizenship.
The red notice is not an arrest warrant and does not require Lebanon to arrest Gon.
This was the second Red Notice Lebanon received in this case; the first was published in January 2020, a few days after Gon fled Japan to Lebanon in an exciting escape.
Prosecutors are investigating millions of dollars in alleged suspicious payments between the Renault-Nissan alliance and Suhail Bahwan Automobiles, a car dealership company in Oman.
Last month, after a French arrest warrant was issued, Gon noted that he was still barred from leaving Lebanon.
Lebanon does not extradite its citizens. Gon has the citizenship of Lebanon, France and Brazil.
