Crimes without punishment: How the wealthy before Carlos Ghosn often escaped the law on.forbes.com/60161wLIE 
About a week ago, Carlos Ghosn, the wealthy ex-Nissan CEO, fled Japan for safety in Lebanon. He is just the latest rich titan to have broken bad, turned fugitive and mostly gotten away with it
After being deposed and forced into exile, Thailand’s Supreme Court sentenced former Thai prime minister—Thaksin Shinawatra—in absentia to 2 years in prison for corruption for using his influence to secure a below-market price for land his wife bought
A Macau court in 2014 convicted Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau in absentia of bribing a city official to allow him to take control of a piece of land near the airport
To get Kingfisher airborne, Indian businessman—Vijay Mallya—took on a massive amount of debt, and a group of Indian banks have been trying to get him to repay more than $1 billion connected to Kingfisher since 2016 when he left India for London
See the rest of the billionaires and former billionaires that have broken bad, turned fugitive and mostly gotten away with it: forbes.com/sites/abrambro…
