Tokyo, Jan. 31 (Jiji Press)–Public prosecutors have stopped short of indicting Japanese actress Ryoko Yonekura over a suspected illegal drug case. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office announced the move Friday while withholding the reason for the decision not to indict the 50-year-old celebrity. Papers on Yonekura for her suspected involvement in a banned drug in violation of the narcotics control law had been sent to prosecutors. According to sources including the prosecutors office, the drug control division of the Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare raided Yonekura’s house in Tokyo in August last year for her alleged joint possession of an illegal drug with a male Argentine acquaintance. In a statement posted on the website of her office last December, Yonekura said it was true that her house was searched by law-enforcement authorities, and that she, after consultations with lawyers, had refrained from releasing information about the matter from the perspective of fully cooperating in the investigation. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
Japanese Actress Ryoko Yonekura Not Indicted over Drug Case
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