The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a British national and a US national on suspicion of smuggling about 17 kilograms of stimulant drugs into Japan.
The suspects are 24-year-old British citizen Kim Tung Nguyen and US citizen Jason Raymond Scott, who is 25 years old. They allegedly violated the Stimulants Control Act.
The police and others said Scott is suspected of having flown from an airport in Los Angeles to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport last month, carrying a suitcase that contained about 17 kilograms of the drugs. The stimulants are estimated to have a street value of more than 6.3 million dollars.
The investigators said security camera footage showed Scott handing the suitcase thought to contain stimulants to Nguyen.
An investigation of the private lodging in Japan where Nguyen had been staying found nearly 100 kilograms of stimulant drugs in six suitcases, with a street value of more than 37 million dollars.
Both suspects have denied the allegations.
AloJapan.com