Japanese snakehead deported from China
By Jiang Zhuqing (China Daily)
Updated: 2004-08-18 07:51

Japanese snakehead Takayuki Noguchi has been deported from China after serving an eight-month jail sentence for smuggling two DPRK citizens out of China.

Noguchi, 33, was questioned on December 10 by frontier police in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for helping the two immigrants from Democractic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) across the Chinese border to Japan. He was then taken into custody by Guangxi's Chongzuo Police Bureau on December 13.

It was not until June 25 that the Chongzuo Intermediate People's Court sentenced Noguchi to eight months and fined him 20,000 yuan (US$2,400), Xinhua said.

Having already served eight months of the sentence, Noguchi was released last week and deported.

The investigation into Noguchi revealed he had been paid 5,000,000 yen (US$4,511) to take the two Koreans from the coastal city of Dalian to Guangxi's capital Nanning, where other people would assist them to cross the Chinese border to a third country. The two Koreans were taken to Japan.

Mission accomplished, Noguchi, who is a Japanese passport holder, left China and returned to his home country via Viet Nam.

He was caught in Nanning when he made a second attempt to smuggle another two DPRK people out.

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