Ex-Olympus CEO illegal drugs case referred to prosecutors

Olympus should be more concerned with their chronic alcoholic VP’s than an alleged recreational drug user. That seems more of a detriment to a person’s ability to do their job. Besides, police will refer anything to prosecutors to see what sticks and most cases referred to prosecutors are thrown out and not pursued. That’s why they have over a 99% conviction rate. If all they have on this guy is hearsay from a drug dealer, I doubt they will bother.

This will end very badly for him. He should have considered the consequences of his actions.

It's the confession-based system. Physical evidence is not prioritized. Whispers and rumors trump facts at hand. A little bird told me.

https://www.tokyoreporter.com/crime/ex-olympus-ceo-sent-to-prosecutors-for-allegedly-receiving-cocaine-mdma/

Home search - nothing

Urine test - nothing

Is the guy still in Japan. If I were him, I'd have got out of Dodge mighty pronto.

@Mike_Oxlong

It's the confession-based system. Physical evidence is not prioritized. Whispers and rumors trump facts at hand. A little bird told me.

Comment of the day! Great choice of words… lol !

@Mickelicious

Is the guy still in Japan. If I were him, I'd have got out …

Totally agree with you. If he hasn’t been able to get out until now then he better start preparing for his arrests and many weeks in jail without legal charges actually being laid and then after charges are filed, many more months ( even years ) in prison while his case is in trail.

0.1 gram?

please. That’s an extremely paltry amount for one so wealthy.

I’d move the decimal point two places to the right if there’s any validity to this case.

If you have an illicit drug habit, don’t come to Japan. Just don’t.

This will bide well for the enclosed and secretive style of the Japanese business community. one that some want to hold onto for dear life. It will tell a narrative that these foreigners are dangerous and by bringing them in risk upsetting the fabric of the culture. That’ll be the spin anways.

Especially ironic as Olympus was the eye in the storm a decade or so ago where another foreign born import, Michael Woodford, blew the whistle in very dramatic form on massive levels of fraud and secretive underworld dealings in the very same company.

The amounts might seem petty to us, but to the locals here its a very big deal and confirms some well held stereo types.

If he's prosecuted, he'll get a suspended sentence!

It's bizarre the police are putting so much effort into this.

Obviously he panicked under interrogation, not surprised.

Once in custody you aren't getting out.

But no possession, no positive drug test.

I knew two guys who were caught with over 100 big plants, they just got deported.

Just shows if you know the right/ wrong people you can get any drug you want in the big cities.

Not worth the risk though.

Police suspect he received 0.1 to 0.2 gram of cocaine and one MDMA pill each time.

Sounds like some kind of treatment to me, especially MDMA...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3

Here, we demonstrate that three doses of MDMA given in conjunction with manualized therapy over the course of 18 weeks results in a significant and robust attenuation of PTSD symptoms and functional impairment as assessed using the CAPS-5 and SDS, respectively. MDMA also significantly mitigated depressive symptoms as assessed using the BDI-II. Of note, MDMA did not increase the occurrence of suicidality during the study.

Is the guy still in Japan. If I were him, I'd have got out of Dodge mighty pronto.

Presumably he was "voluntarily" relieved of his passport before he could pull a runner.

For the uninformed... cocaine and MDMA market is exclusive market of Mafia in Japan, not only Yakuza but the Chinese and Philipine mafias too.

Reason the police is fixed in the Olympus CEO, any information he has it probably give them lead to the routes, the hows and the whos are commercializing this stuff.

Also, if they got a lead that the CEO was purchasing drugs, the one that give them the lead is also under investigation. What the police is doing is to washout not only the supliers but the "clients" too.

It makes it to the news because the high profile of the person