What was he charged with?

Japanese prosecutors have accused him of financial wrongdoing, including underreporting his compensation and temporarily shifting his personal financial losses onto Nissan’s books. Prosecutors have also charged Nissan and a board member, Greg Kelly, who is a United States citizen. Mr. Kelly was released from jail a year ago because he was having health problems, and is still in Tokyo, his lawyer said. Mr. Kelly also denies wrongdoing

How did he get out of Japan?

Details of Mr. Ghosn’s escape from Japan have begun to emerge though many specifics remain murky and unconfirmed.

Mr. Ghosn was aided in his escape by an American security consultant who accompanied him on the flight out of the country, a person familiar with the matter told The New York Times on Friday, while a Turkish charter jet company said that its planes were used illegally to pull off the plan.

The news accounts of Mr. Ghosn’s flight match the records of a Bombardier business aircraft operated by MNG Jet that took off from Osaka just after 11 p.m. local time and landed in Istanbul about 12 hours later, according to data from FlightAware, a flight tracking service.

MNG Jet said it had no indication the two flights were connected. It said that it filed a criminal complaint in Turkey on Wednesday and that it “hopes that the people who illegally used and/or facilitated the use of the services of the company will be duly prosecuted.”