(Bloomberg) -- Carlos Ghosn's escape from Japan to Lebanon has drawn in a British former military-man who found wealth inpost-war Iraq providing aviation and fuel services, the Financial Times reported.
A $175,000 invoice for the private jet that flew the former Nissan Motor Co. executive from Osaka to Istanbul was paid on Dec. 26 by Al-Nitaq al-Akhdhar for General Trade Ltd., a company linked to ex-serviceman Mike Douglas, the newspaper said, without saying where it got the information.
Douglas, chief executive officer of Dubai-based SKA International, told the newspaper that any payment made was for logistics or cargo business, and not to charter any aircraft. “So as far as I'm concerned, we're not involved,” the FT quoted him as saying.
Trains, Planes and Audacity: Ghosn's 5,400 Mile Escape to Beirut
A further sum of $175,000 owed to MNG Jet, the Turkish charter firm that supplied planes for Ghosn, still hasn't been paid, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter. It said the escape cost Ghosn about $20 million in expenses and forfeited bail money.
Tokyo District Court said Tuesday that Ghosn has forfeited his 1.5 billion yen ($13.8 million) bail bond, according to Kyodo News.
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To contact the editors responsible for this story: Young-Sam Cho at ycho2@bloomberg.net, Will Davies
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