Ex-Toyota exec Hamp freed after arrest on suspected drug offense
By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Teppei Kasai TOKYO (Reuters) – Former Toyota Motor Corp executive Julie Hamp was freed from police custody on Wednesday after Tokyo prosecutors said they would not indict her for suspected illegal importing of the painkiller Oxycodone into Japan. Hamp, a U.S. citizen who became Toyota's chief communications officer and first female managing officer in April, had been held since her June 18 arrest. An official at the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor&039;s Office told reporters that prosecutors had taken into account the "social penalty" she had already incurred with her resignation from Toyota.
