Posted on 01/27/2007 4:13:50 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Police decided Saturday to shortly arrest a former executive of a pro-North Korea scientists' association who ran a temporary staff agency in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, and his wife on suspicion of violating a law regulating temp staff services, police sources said.
The 74-year-old North Korean resident of Japan is a former executive of the Korean Association of Science and Technology, a group affiliated with the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, and is known as an expert on engine engineering, according to the police.
Investigators say there is a possibility the scientists' group, for which the man still serves as an "adviser," might be involved in leaks of cutting-edge technology, including missile-related ones, to North Korea.
The man and his 72-year-old wife, who now run the temp agency, are suspected of sending technical workers to an electrical machinery manufacturer in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, without filing papers with the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
The temp agency, Taiho Sangyo, was established in 1961, and the North Korean man retired as president last June. The Kanagawa police searched the company office in Kawasaki and his home in Tokyo last November in connection with the case.
Last June, the police had also filed papers with prosecutors on a Tokyo-based medicine supplies company for allegedly selling medicines to a trading company illegally for export to North Korea. The North Korean man was serving as an auditor for the trading company.
The scientists' association was established in 1959 and is comprised mostly of North Korean scientists and engineers who live in Japan. In October 2005, the group's vice chairman and others were arrested on suspicion of violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law. Documents on Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force's surface-to-air missiles were found in a related search on the group's premises, according to investigators.
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Its products were extensively used in the treatments of a wide range of ailments. As well as supplying whole blood for transfusions, Green Cross was also active in developing blood derivative products such as coagulation factors, immunoglobulin and albumin. In the mid 1960's, it expanded into the non-plasma sector. Cardiovascular agents, coagulation/fibrinolytic agents, immunological agents, anti-inflammatory agents, albumin-based agents, blood plasma components and parenteral nutrition accounted for 71% of fiscal 1998 unconsolidated revenues; wholesale of diagnostic reagents, 14% and other, 15%. Unconsolidated revenues accounted for 59.5% of fiscal 1998 consolidated revenues. The company had eleven consolidated subsidiaries, three each in the United States and Japan, and one each in Germany, the United Kingdom, Barbados, China and Hong Kong. Overseas sales accounted for 41.9% of fiscal 1998 consolidated revenues.
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