Car Russian Investigative Committee
TFR has opened a criminal investigation into the activities of the sect “Aum Shinrikyo” in Russia. Media reported about the searches and arrests of members of the sect in Moscow and St. Petersburg. According to the CCJ, the sectarians collected donations through the Internet
The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) has opened a criminal investigation into the activities of the association “Aum” (declared a terrorist and banned in Russia). This is stated in a message on the site TFR.
The criminal case was opened under Part 1 st.239 Criminal Code (creation of an association whose activities involve violence against citizens and other injury to their health).
According to the investigation, unidentified persons no later than 2011 established in Moscow and St. Petersburg association of followers of “Aum” ( “Aleph”). Investigators believe that the creators of the group used physical and psychological pressure on the citizens in order to receive their donations and property.
According to the CCJ, from 2012 to 2014 members of the “Aum Shinrikyo” was carried out to collect donations through the Internet. Besides, in Moscow and St. Petersburg for meetings with union members.
According to the TFR, is now the investigators together with representatives of the FSB and the Russian Interior Ministry carried out searches in the Moscow and St. Petersburg (the security forces came to 20 addresses) – to identify the persons who may be involved in the activities of “Aum”. In addition, the security forces are looking for books or articles intended “to perform religious practices, electronic media, as well as other objects and documents».
On the morning of Tuesday, April 5 channel “Russia 24″ said that law enforcement authorities carried out massive searches in the apartments of the members of “Aum Shinrikyo” in Moscow and St. Petersburg. According to the channel information, the security forces also began conducting detention
According to a source in law enforcement agencies TASS, in St. Petersburg, in the case of the sect “Aum Shinrikyo” detained about 10 people -. They were sent for interrogation in the TFR. We also removed the detainees literature of the sect’s founder Shoko Asahara. The source suggested that a number of detainees were subsequently remanded. TFR in his report on the detention involved in the sect people are not informed.
Later, in an interview with Interfax the official representative of the Ministry of Interior of Russia Irina Volk said that the searches of the leaders and adherents of “Aum” are held on the 11 addresses Moscow and 14 in St. Petersburg. These addresses are detected and removed items for rituals, as well as electronic storage media.
March 26, it became known that during a police operation in Montenegro arrested 60 foreigners, most of which turned out to be Russians. It was pointed out that all the detainees were members of the “Aum”. After the detainees were deported from Montenegro, including 43 people were sent to Russia.
The wolf made more precise, that now these people check out the staff of the National Bureau of Interpol.
«Aum” is widely used in Russia in the early 1990s. The country, according to various estimates, there were about 30 thousand. Followers of a religious association. The founder of the sect was previously declared insane. After the terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway March 20, 1995, when supporters of the sect sprayed sarin in cars, 12 members of the “Aum Shinrikyo” were sentenced to death.
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