Asia > JapanAFP
Thursday, May 15, 2008
TOKYO -- A Japanese court sentenced two men in their sixties to life in prison on Wednesday for smug
gling about 230 kilograms (506 pounds) of amphetamines from North Korea, a court official said. The Tokyo District Court also fined 60-year-old Japanese gangster Katsuhiko Miyata and U Si-yun, a 61-year-old South Korean national living in Japan, a total of 971.8 million yen (US$9.3 million), the official said. The court ruled that the men had smuggled the drugs into Japan from a North Korean vessel in June 2002.
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