2 held, 1 man sought, in CFC-smuggling case.KITAKYUSHU, Japan, Sept. 21 Kyodo Japanese police have arrested two men and are seeking another on suspicion of smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain into Japan a banned type of chlorofluorocarbon chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) Any of several organic compounds containing carbon, fluorine, and chlorine. A number of different CFCs have been made and sold under the trade name Freon. (CFC CFC See: Controlled foreign corporation ), the police and customs authorities said Friday. The men are Yuichiro Nakazono, 33, unemployed and with no fixed address, and Kenji Araki, 40, a car sales company president and resident of Fukuoka Prefecture, the authorities said, adding the two men have mostly admitted to the allegations. The authorities are also trying to locate a 28-year-old man who resides in Kitakyushu and sells car parts, in connection with the case, the police said. CFC, an industrial chemical used in refrigeration refrigeration, process for drawing heat from substances to lower their temperature, often for purposes of preservation. Refrigeration in its modern, portable form also depends on insulating materials that are thin yet effective. systems, air conditioners, solvents and other products, causes damage to the ozone layer ozone layer or ozonosphere, region of the stratosphere containing relatively high concentrations of ozone, located at altitudes of 12–30 mi (19–48 km) above the earth's surface. , and its production and import have been banned under international agreements. Investigations showed the three falsely filed an import application for a CFC substitute that is allowed, but smuggled smug·gle v. smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles v.tr. 1. To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties. 2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth. in about 36,000 cans of the banned CFC 12 instead. Authorities said the CFC cans, each weighing 310 grams, arrived at a container terminal in Kitakyushu on June 25 from China. The three men are also believed to have smuggled into Japan and sold about 350,000 cans of CFC 12 from August last year on 10 occasions, the authorities said. In addition to the charge of violating the Customs Law, the authorities said they are probing into the case as a possible violation of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law. Since late 1995, production and import of CFCs had been banned in Japan, but the products are smuggled in from developing countries, where CFC production is allowed, according to authorities. |
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