JAKOPS, CEO of XGALX, arrested for drug possession. Four individuals, including XG producers, were caught with cocaine and marijuana.
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JAKOPS (Simon), who is the CEO and executive producer of the label XGALX to which XG belongs, has been arrested on suspicion of violating drug control laws. Today (the 23rd), a Japanese media outlet reported that four producers of XG were arrested on the spot for possessing cocaine. According to the report, SIMON and three others, including an Avex employee, are suspected of possessing cocaine and dried marijuana at a hotel in Aichi Prefecture early on the 23rd. According to investigative sources, police officers were searching the hotel when they found cocaine placed on the desk in the room, seizing a total of four bags of cocaine and one bag of marijuana. The police plan to investigate the source of the cocaine.
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