Death call for Japanese drug dealer
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THE trial in Guangzhou of a Japanese politician and two African associates charged with drug trafficking has ended with prosecutors asking for a sentence ranging from 15 years to death.
Takuma Sakuragi, a councillor in the central Japanese city of Inazawa, was arrested at Guangzhou airport in October with more than 3 kilograms of methamphetamine in his suitcase, according to previous media reports.
He was handed a suitcase by two African associates in Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, and was asked to give it to the wife of one of them in Tokyo, the reports said.
The trio’s three-day trial at the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court ended on Thursday night, the Beijing Times reported yesterday, adding that the verdict will be announced “at an appropriate time.”
Prosecutors called for the court to consider sentences of death, life imprisonment or 15 years in prison for the 70-year-old politician if he is convicted, Japan’s Kyodo news agency said.
The case comes after another Japanese man was executed in China last month for drugs offense. Four Japanese were executed in China in 2010 for carrying illegal drugs.
That was the first time Beijing had used the death penalty against Japanese nationals since the two countries normalized ties in 1972.
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