Tokyo police send investigator to China to probe 1995 murder

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TOKYO, Sept. 13 Kyodo -
The Metropolitan Police Department dispatched one of its investigators to
Dalian, China on Sunday to interrogate a 66-year-old Japanese man in prison
about an unsolved murder-robbery that took place in a Tokyo supermarket in
1995, the police said.
The interrogation itself will be conducted by the Chinese authorities, and the
MPD investigator will be present at the scene, they said.
The man, who has been sentenced to death in China for dealing illegal drugs, is
wanted by the Aichi prefectural police for robbery and other criminal cases.
Before he was taken into custody in China, he allegedly told his acquaintance
that his other acquaintance committed the high-profile crime in the supermarket
in Hachioji, in which three women were shot to death, investigative sources
said.
According to the sources, the man was a major culprit in a series of robberies
at residences of wealthy people involving a group of Japanese and Chinese
robbers.
In August 2007, his death sentence was finalized in a ruling by a Chinese high
court for allegedly buying amphetamine drugs from a Chinese in Dalian in June
2003 and handing over the drugs to five people, including a Japanese, the
following month.
==Kyodo