AUM cult successor group raided over illegal recruiting practices

Police on Monday searched five offices and facilities of the main successor group to the former AUM Shinrikyo cult responsible for the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin nerve gas attack.The police searches came after the group, now known as Aleph, in February allegedly recruited and collected membership fees totaling tens of thousands of yen from a woman without having her fill out the legally required paperwork.The Hokkaido prefectural police raided a four-story building in Sapporo's Shiroishi Ward understood to be used by Aleph. The building is thought to be the group's largest such facility.The AU…READ FULL ARTICLE