Interpol has issued a “red notice” to Lebanon asking the country to arrest Carlos Ghosn, while the former Nissan chairman sought to quash allegations that his family had played a role in his escape from Tokyo to Beirut.
The request from the international police organisation, confirmed by Beirut on Thursday, came as authorities in Japan and Turkey stepped up their investigations into how Mr Ghosn managed to fly out of Osaka airport on a private jet.
Japanese prosecutors on Thursday raided the house occupied by the former carmaker executive in Tokyo, and Turkish police detained seven airport staff and pilots in Istanbul, where Mr Ghosn’s plane made a stopover on its way to Beirut last Sunday.