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 TOKYO (AP) - The president of precision instrument maker Mitutoyo Corp. was arrested in the alleged export to Malaysia of equipment that can be used in making nuclear weapons, officials said Friday.
Tokyo police arrested Kazusaku Tezuka, along with four other Mitutoyo executives and employees, on suspicion of violating foreign trade control laws, trade ministry official Hiroyuki Murakami said.
Mitutoyo is suspected of illegally exporting to its subsidiary in Malaysia two three-dimensional measuring devices that can be converted for use in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, one each in October and November, 2001, Murakami said.
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