The Chief Executive Officer of Santory is resigned after searching for the police of the police

“The entire company will work together to restore confidence,” Sentory Nobuhiro Torii said at a press conference hurry to announce the resignation. Tori refused to comment on the legitimacy of what he described as supplements in the home of the former CEO, noting the ongoing investigation. Ninami did not attend the briefing.

The police were investigating in Ninami, 66, about a suspect’s violation of the country’s strict hemp laws, according to Tokyo Shimbon earlier on Tuesday. Ninami denied these allegations. No public data has yet indicated this topic.

Ninami, who defended the reforms and talked about the leaders of companies looking for a more competitive and competitive companies sector in Japan, decided to resign after he decided that his lack of knowledge about nutritional supplements is not qualified to lead the company, according to the statement.

The shares of the unit listed in Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd. About gains after reports of Niinami’s resignation, and increased by 2 % of the end of trading in Tokyo on Tuesday. The stock has decreased more than 6 % this year.

“He should leave any legal violations of the authorities,” Tori said. “We have decided that this behavior reflects the inadequacy of the role of the representative director.”

As president of the second largest association in Japan Lobby in Japan in Japan for CEOs, known as Keizai Doyukai, Niinami was an explicit and influential voice in business circles. For more than a decade, he had pushed Suntory as the Japanese drink giant faced a slower local consumption and increased competition abroad.

It was made by a frequent appearance of the Japanese and international media in the Japanese and international media, and it is often controversial, in a well -known business environment in change and risks.

In July, Ninami called for the Japanese Central Bank to raise interest rates, and warned that the failure to do so was to keep the yen weak, and in turn the high food prices and other imports were increasing. He said, “The responsibility of the ruler will be,” an unusually sharp observation directed at Kazuo UEDA, the central bank ruler who began to tighten prices last year after 17 years of super -monetary policy.

Kanabidlah, or the Convention on Biological Diversity, is legal products in Japan as long as they are completely empty of THC, which are chemicals with a psychological effect in cannabis. Anything that contains THC is rated higher than a very low threshold as a drug, and is punished for possession or transfer of CBD products that contain THC by seven years in prison.

Japan Narcotics laws I have acquired other executives before.

Last October, Olympus Corp, the maker of Japanese medical devices, prompted former CEO Stephen Kaufman after investigating that he had bought illegal drugs. The German citizen’s exit was amazed, and was later convicted of receiving illegal drugs.

In 2015, Jolie Hamb, a media advisor at Toyota Motor, resigned after her arrest because of the import of pain drugs in Japan without approval. but, It was left After the public prosecutors did not attend any charges against it and Hamb joined the company in 2022.

In December, Sentory replaced Niinami by promoting Torii as president, in a move that witnessed the reins of the Japanese whiskey maker back to the founding family. Ninami remained as CEO and Chairman of the Board.

Suntory had rented Niinami educated at Harvard University in 2014, making him the first executive of the founding family. The company’s integration has led with Beam Inc. I bought for $ 16 billion. Before joining Sentory, Niinami presided over the Japanese stores chain Lawson Inc. For 12 years.

“The purchased nutritional supplements were not the product of the company,” Sontory said in the statement.