TOKYO, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Three foreign nationals have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling around 113 kilograms of stimulant drugs with a street value of about 7 billion yen (47 million U.S. dollars) from Mexico, police in central Japan said Thursday.
Police in Toyama prefecture believe the three suspects, a Ukrainian and two Russian men, smuggled the drugs through Narita airport near Tokyo in August by hiding them in air cargo, with the substances divided into clear plastic bags and carried in a large metal container.
The stimulants arrived at a company in Toyama in September when local police arrested the three, and a 22-year-old male Russian national initially on suspicion of narcotics possession, they said.
Investigators suspect that an international drug smuggling ring was involved in this case.
