JAKARTA FEBRUARY 24, 2008
Police in US arrest Miura for wife's murder in 1981
Police in US arrest Miura for wife's murder in 1981
Police in Saipan arrested former company president Kazuyoshi Miura at the airport on Friday at the request of the Los Angeles Police Department. He was about to leave for Japan.
They say Mr Miura was arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife Kazumi in 1981 to collect on her life insurance policy.
The 1981 murder received wide media coverage in Japan. In 1994, the Tokyo District Court found Miura guilty and sentenced him to life in prison. The Tokyo High Court acquitted him, a decision that the Supreme Court let stand in 2003.
In a separate trial in 1987, he was sentenced to a 6-year prison term for an earlier attempt to murder his wife.
Staff at the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Saipan office requested Saipan police to put them into contact with Mr Miura but he reportedly refused to meet the official.
Saipan police add that they plan to transfer Mr Miura to Los Angeles Police Department custody, but they say they cannot comment on when he will be transferred.
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