Japanese city politician denies drug charges
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A JAPANESE city politician pleaded not guilty to Chinese drugs charges that could carry the death penalty as his trial began at Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court yesterday.
Takuma Sakuragi was arrested with more than three kilograms of “white crystals” in a suitcase at the Guangzhou airport last October, China News Service said. The drugs seized by police from Sakuragi contained methamphetamine, the news service added.
Sakuragi denied the charges in court, it said.
Officials in the central Japanese city of Inazawa previously said that Sakuragi, 70, is a city councillor who was in China for his private trading business.
He was handed a suitcase by two African associates in Guangzhou and was asked to give it to the wife of one of them in Tokyo, according to a Sina report.
The case, which is expected to conclude today, comes after China put to death a Japanese man for drugs offence last month, according to Tokyo diplomats and media reports.
Four Japanese were executed in China in 2010 for carrying illegal drugs.
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