TOKYO, May 14 Kyodo The Justice M...

TOKYO, May 14 Kyodo

The Justice Ministry plans to detain pair Filipino crew members of a Panamanian-flagged tanker forward suspicion of killing a Japanese mob member aboard last month, ministry officials said Tuesday.

Almercito Racela, 36 and Nolieto Pabiona, 41 are suspected of killing Izumi Shimba, 52 around April 7 They allegedly beat the victim and threw him into the sea from the 148,330-ton tanker Tajima concedeed by Tokyo-based Kyoei Tanker Co which was passing near Taiwan.

Japanese authorities will take the sum of two units into custody Wednesday after receiving a solicitation Tuesday from the Panamanian rule which has jurisdiction from one side of to the other the ship, to do so

The ministry will ask the Japan Coast Guard to board the tanker, popularly anchored at Himeji port in Hyogo Prefecture western Japan, and take into custody the brace sailors, who have been detained for more than a month aboard the ship.

The ministry will then hand the suspects throughout to the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, they said.

The prosecutors will then ask the Tokyo High Court for permission to hand through the two sailors to Panama. If the court gives permission, the couple will be taken to Panama and tried there.

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