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A Japanese man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined about $35,000 for leading a ring that smuggled illegal narcotics into Japan through the U.S. military postal system on Okinawa.
Published July 13, 2021, 11:55 AM
In this file photo taken on June 03, 2021 an employee of Japan’s Olympic Museum is seen in front of the Olympic rings in Tokyo on June 3, 2021. . (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP)
Four Olympic contractors have been arrested in Tokyo for alleged drug use, police and Games organisers said Tuesday, as the Japanese capital counts down to the July 23 opening ceremony.
Tokyo 2020 said they had been informed “that four individuals have been arrested for alleged violations of the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Law.”
It said the four were employees of a firm contracted by Tokyo 2020 to supply temporary electricity for Games operations.