軍事転用可能機、中国に不正輸出　容疑でメーカー社長ら逮捕―警視庁

　生物兵器製造に転用可能な噴霧乾燥機を中国に無許可輸出したとして、警視庁公安部は１１日、外為法違反容疑で化学機械メーカー「大川原化工機」（横浜市）社長の大川原正明容疑者（７０）＝同市栄区柏陽＝ら３人を逮捕した。公安部は韓国にも不正輸出した疑いがあるとみて、調べている。
　逮捕容疑は２０１６年６月、経済産業相に許可申請が必要な「スプレードライヤー」と呼ばれる噴霧乾燥機１台（輸出価格約１８００万円）を横浜港から中国・上海に無許可輸出した疑い。（2020/03/11-18:59）

Police have arrested the president of a chemical machinery maker and two other people for allegedly exporting a device that may be used to make biological weapons to China without permission.
   Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department on Wednesday arrested Masaaki Okawara, 70, president of Ohkawara Kakohki Co., based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, along with the other two suspects.
   The three are suspected of shipping a spray dryer worth 18 million yen from the port of Yokohama to Shanghai in June 2016 without obtaining necessary permission from the trade minister.
   The three have denied the allegations, claiming that the export did not violate Japan's trade restrictions given the performance of the machine, according to company sources.
   Spray dryers convert liquid into dry powder instantly. High-performance machines could be used to develop and produce military-use bacterial agents, according to the Tokyo police's Public Security Bureau.