St. Jude Medical's CEO released after India arrest

St. Jude Medical’s CEO Daniel Starks was free to travel inside India Thursday, a day after authorities detained him for having a single round of live ammunition on him at the Delhi airport.
“Mr. Starks is respectful of the local process and has decided to remain in India until this misunderstanding is completely cleared up,” St. Jude spokeswoman Marisa Bluestone said in an e-mail statement. She said there are no formal charges against Starks.
There are still many unanswered questions about the incident. According to media reports, Starks was in India on business. He was about to take a chartered flight from the Indira Gandhi International Airport to Dharamsala, which happens to be the home of the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama. (Bluestone didn’t respond to a question about whether Starks was going to see the Dalai Lama. Being a fan of the Dalai Lama might be a tricky situation for a CEO whose company does business in China.)
Bluestone said in her e-mail that Starks was “temporarily detained by airport police on March 16 after a single shell was inadvertently left in an item of his clothing.
18/03/11 Chris Newmarker/MinnPost.com

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Categories: Airports Mar 2011, Foreign Mar 2011