The American father and son who orchestrated Carlos Ghosn’s elaborate escape from Japan in an audio equipment box and private jet have been sentenced by a Tokyo court to two years and 20 months in prison, respectively.
The punishment handed down to Michael Taylor, a 60-year-old former Green Beret, and his son Peter, 28, followed their extradition from the US this year.
The Taylors pleaded guilty during their first appearance before a three-judge panel in the Tokyo District Court last month. They had faced up to three years in prison and at one point tried to argue that the act of assisting a person to “jump bail” was not technically a crime in one reading of the Japanese criminal code.