The arrests
Kanagawa prefectural police arrested three people, including 33-year-old Rikiya Sakai, president of the imported-goods retailer Antsu International in Osaka’s Miyakojima ward, on suspicion of aiding a violation of the Cannabis Control Law.[1][2] The company came under investigation after former Kanto Gakuin University rugby club members, arrested for growing cannabis, told police they had bought the seeds through it.[1]
The seed trade
Investigators say the three sold 20 cannabis seeds to a 26-year-old man in Zama, Kanagawa, for 47,600 yen on about 3 November 2007.[1] Police also planned to investigate the three over the Customs Law and the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law.[1] The firm is suspected of selling seeds obtained in the Netherlands to 182 people across 42 prefectures.[1][2]
