Yamaha Motor’s employees have been arrested for contraband
Japanese Law enforcement bodies have arrested three employees of Yamaha Motor Company. They are suspected in contraband deliveries of pilotless helicopters to China.
According Japanese policemen, helicopters were intended for cartographical Chinese company Beijing BVE Technology Co. The Japanese authorities are inclined to suspect this company illegal communications with the Chinese army.
According to the Japanese current legislation, such transactions should be approved by the government. Nevertheless, any Yamaha has not received any sanctions for such activity. The police consider that Yamaha Motor’s employees managed to sell about 8 machines, which can be used in the military purposes.
For the first time Yamaha has been suspected in contraband in 2005 during the Trade Ministry’s inspection. After the information on possible deliveries had been forwarded to the law enforcement bodies, the police have carried out the total inspection of the company.
By the way, political and trading relations between two countries have been periodically marked with distrust and rivalry. Peking tries to challenge the fact of Japanese Senkaku islands possession. It is worth of mentioning that the wave of the anti-Japanese performances caused by occurrence in Japan of textbooks in which it was not spoken directly about the mass destruction of the Chinese arranged by imperial armies in Nanking in 1937, has rushed through China in 2005.
