TOKYO (TR) – On Thursday, Tokyo Customs introduced that it had filed a grievance with prosecutors over a 32-year-old former mannequin who’s accused of making an attempt to smuggle liquefied stimulants into Japan from the UK 5 years in the past, stories the Sankei Shimbun (Oct. 17).
In keeping with police, Hideaki Koyama, 32, conspired with an confederate to smuggle roughly 1.8 kg of liquified kakuseizai (methamphetamine) from the UK to a female and male acquaintance in Shinjuku Ward by way of worldwide mail.
The contraband, which was found hid inside 12 lotion bottles by a Tokyo Customs official on December 25, 2019, has a avenue worth of roughly 120 million yen.
Police didn’t reveal whether or not he admits to violating the Stimulants Management Act.
Koyama labored as a mannequin underneath the title “Jake.” In January 2020, Australian police arrested him for making an attempt to smuggle methamphetamine and different medicine into Australia. He was later sentenced to jail.
In September of this 12 months, upon his return to Japan, he was arrested by Tokyo Metropolitan Police on suspicion of smuggling.
