After Carlos Ghosn prepares to flee Japan in a complex and dramatic operation, ex-US Army veteran Michael Taylor catches up with the former auto magnate in a new documentary airing on Apple TV Plus.

“In Search of Carlos Ghosn” is a 4-episode documentary series, directed by the British James Jones, based on the investigations of the “Wall Street Journal”, which aims to paint a complete picture of the former Renault-Nissan chairman. A shocking fall.

Apple TV Plus will begin streaming the series worldwide from August 25.

Like the BBC documentary that aired in 2021, the new documentary explores the dimensions of Ghosn’s case from his rise to his arrest in Japan in late 2018 on suspicion of financial crimes.

In a statement to Agence France-Presse, journalist Nick Kostow, one of the authors of the book the series is inspired by, says Ghosn is well-proportioned “with great qualities and great flaws.”

Thanks to the great Michael Taylor and his son David, the “Apple” series details Ghosn’s escape from Japan on a private plane and hiding in a box of musical instruments.

These two men are considered indirect victims in the case, like others, and are in jail because of their involvement.

Since then, despite arrest warrants issued against the French-Brazilian-Lebanese businessman by judicial authorities in Japan and France, Ghosn has remained at his home in Lebanon, where authorities have not extradited their citizens.

According to Nick Kostow, Michael Taylor believed that “getting him (Ghosn) out of Japan was like getting him out of North Korea.”

But captivity in Japan broke the resolve of this former soldier in the elite forces and that of his son.

“The time spent in Carlos Ghosn’s prison was a laughable thing compared to the suffering we went through,” Taylor says in the documentary, from long periods of solitary confinement.

Taylor accuses Ghosn of not paying him for service rendered, and says “I paid a million dollars out of my own pocket for trial costs.”

“I’m a good friend, but I can also be an archenemy. The story isn’t over yet.”

In the documentary series, the ex-soldier describes the 69-year-old Ghosn as very arrogant about his success, hosting a party at the Palace of Versailles.

Ghosn’s former colleagues at Nissan, as well as Louis Switzer, who appointed him to head the company, and Arnaud Monbourg, the former French economy minister, describe how detached he is from reality.

Then Wall Street Journal reporters, based on Ghosn’s correspondence, try to trace what they say is a money-laundering scheme through Oman.

Through the scheme, millions of dollars from Renault’s bonuses were paid to an Omani billionaire and transferred back to the head of Renault-Nissan, according to “Agence France Presse”.

Ghosn says he received the money transferred in exchange for giving him business advice.

But Renault’s legal representative insists it’s a “routine conflict of interest” and “highly overpaid”.

At the end, Ghosn wonders, “Obviously, after all I’ve accomplished, is this what’s left?”, and “It can’t end this way.”

In Japan, Ghosn cannot be tried in absentia, and in France the businessman is still at risk of prosecution.