Japan should introduce a more relaxed bail system but step up its surveillance of defendants in criminal cases to prevent a repeat of the dramatic escape by fallen auto titan Carlos Ghosn, a former Cabinet minister and Tokyo governor said Tuesday.
Despite bail conditions intended to restrict his movements ahead of a trial for alleged financial misconduct, Ghosn took a bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka, where he fled the country aboard a private jet late last month.
¡°When considering bail, the prosecutors and courts only think about destruction of evidence,¡± Yoichi Masuzoe said by phone. ¡°They didn¡¯t think about Ghosn escaping. That was their biggest mistake.¡±
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