http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/391605
Monday, November 27, 2006 at 11:00 EST
TOKYO — Police searched the Tokyo branch of a Korean residents' group affiliated with North Korea, and other locations, Monday on suspicion it was involved in unauthorized transactions of an intravenous solution intended for shipment to North Korea.
A 59-year-old doctor in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward is suspected of handing over 60 intravenous bags without authorization around May to a 74-year-old woman linked to a group affiliated with the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, the police said. The woman, a Korean resident in Japan related to an executive of the Chongryon affiliate, attempted to take the intravenous bags to North Korea on a North Korean ferry from a Niigata port without declaring them but they were found by customs officials, the police said.