The trial of seven people accused of involvement in the smuggling of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan has resumed in Turkey.
The fourth hearing got underway on Wednesday in Istanbul.
In the previous hearing, Turkish prosecutors sought the maximum possible 12 years in prison for a Turkish private airline official and two pilots over Carlos Ghosn's dramatic escape in 2019.
Prosecutors also requested that the court acquitted two other pilots on the charge of "illegally smuggling a migrant".
They recommended instead that the two - who flew him from Istanbul to Beirut - be tried on charges of failing to report a crime.
Prosecutors also demanded that charges against two flight attendants be dropped.
Ghosn, 66, who was arrested over financial misconduct allegations in Tokyo in 2018, skipped bail while awaiting trial there.
He was flown by pilots Noyan Pasin and Bahri Kutlu Somek from Osaka to Istanbul on a private plane and then transferred onto another plane for Beirut, where he arrived on December 30, 2019.
He is believed to have been smuggled inside a large, foam-covered music box.
All four pilots and two flight attendants have denied involvement in the plans to help Ghosn flee, insisting that they did not know that he was aboard the flights.
Ghosn, who has French, Lebanese and Brazilian citizenship, led Japanese automaker Nissan for two decades.
He is wanted on charges of breach of trust in misusing company assets for personal gain, and violating securities laws in not fully disclosing his compensation.
Associated Press
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