More arrests over mushroom claims
Seven people,
including an executive of a Tokyo-based publishing company, were arrested
Wednesday on suspicion of advertising "meshimakobu" mushrooms as an
anticancer drug in 2003 in violation of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law,
investigation sources said.
The seven suspects include Maki
Kimura, a 49-year-old executive of the Tokyo-based publisher Shiki Shuppan, and
Yoshinori Murakami, 40, former executive of the health food vender, which is
now defunct, the sources said.
Hiroaki Numasawa, 43, an editor at
the publisher, and Shingo Horiuchi, 32, president of Oasis Co., another health
food vender based in
Kimura was arrested last month over
similar advertising of agaricus mushrooms but was released without being
indicted, they said.
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