Posted on 06/20/2015 4:02:44 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda said Friday he believes an American executive arrested on suspicion of importing a controlled drug into Japan had no intention of breaking the law.
Julie Hamp, Toyota's head of public relations and its first senior female executive, was arrested Thursday for allegedly importing the painkiller oxycodone. She was the first foreign Toyota executive to be fully stationed in Japan, and was in the process of moving her belongings from California.
At a hastily called news conference Friday, Toyoda bowed and apologized for the troubles set off by the arrest of Hamp, who was tapped as Toyota's chief communications officer in April.
He said the company should have done more to help with Hamp's relocation. He declined to go into details of the police allegations, only repeating several times that the company was cooperating fully with the investigation.
The drug was found by customs officials in a package Hamp sent to herself by air mail from the United States, according to police. Japanese media reports said the drugs were hidden in various parts of a jewelry box.
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Did she have a prescription for it?
Assuming, of course, that the "hidden is a jewelry box" is accurate rather than just governmental BS.
I doubt this is going to fly. Methinks at the very least she will be deported, but there is strong — very strong — resistance from the National Police authorities, to the idea of letting wealthy/famous people skate on the drug laws. If the drugs were hidden in her jewelry box, that will be sufficient to convince the prosecutor that she had criminal intent.
Sure doesn’t sound like an inadvertent mistake.
She should lose her position and be deported in any case.
It would behoove someone in an executive position to
know and understand the laws of the country they are
moving to just like anyone else. It isn’t all that hard.
I agree she hid them with intent
We need to bring some of these Japanese drug enforcement experts to the US so they can show us how to improve our drug laws to be more like theres and how to enforce them.
As for this lady, I suspect she will be returning to the US in a few days and begin looking for a new job. It sounds like she has a serious drug addiction problem.
Now why would she even need it .... she could get Salon-pas from the source!
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