TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 44-year-old photographer for allegedly offering unlawful medication to the previous CEO of precision gear producer Olympus Corp.
On a number of events between September 2022 and February of this yr, Takaaki Kaneko allegedly supplied cocaine and MDMA, or Ecstasy, to former Olympus CEO Stefan Kaufmann, 56, whereas figuring out that they had been unlawful medication.
According to investigators, Kaneko is believed to have given Kaufmann 0.1 to 0.2 grams of cocaine and one pill of MDMA every time, stories TBS News (Nov. 8).
During voluntary questioning, Kaufmann stated that he had bought unlawful medication from Kaneko. After an investigation was launched, they arrested Kaneko.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of violating the Special Narcotics Act, Kaneko, who lives in Katsushika Ward, has remained silent, police stated.
On June 18, investigators from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Drug and Firearms Control Division performed a search of the previous CEO’s residence in Minato Ward.
At the time, Kaufmann nonetheless maintained his CEO title. During the aforementioned voluntary session, he denied utilizing unlawful medication. The outcomes of a urine take a look at gave a unfavourable end result for unlawful substances, police stated.
The matter didn’t floor inside Olympus till September, when paperwork detailing the drug transactions arrived on the firm’s headquarters.
The firm’s later board got here to unanimous choice that the previous CEO “likely engaged in behaviors that were inconsistent” with its code of conduct. On October 28, the corporate introduced that the previous CEO had resigned on account of suspicions of buying unlawful medication.
Police are persevering with the investigation, together with whether or not to file expenses towards Kaufmann.