Tokyo police have arrested the president of a pharmaceutical wholesale company and her son on suspicion of illegally selling prescription-only medicine without a doctor’s approval.
The suspects are Yumiko Masaka (60), president of Alex Care, and her son Yoshitaka (32), an employee at the same company.
According to police, between February last year and March this year, the two allegedly sold prescription drugs to a Vietnamese woman who did not have a doctor’s prescription.
Investigators believe that since around 2017, the pair repeatedly sold medicines such as Dalacin T Gel, an acne treatment that requires a prescription, in hundreds of transactions to Vietnamese nationals and others.
Police have not disclosed whether the two have admitted to the allegations. They are now investigating how the drugs were distributed within the Vietnamese community.
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