“Japan: Gifthot against the pharmaceutical and media firms”
“Japanese pharmaceutical companies, food corporations and one of the country’s largest newspapers have received threatening letters, which in several cases has contained the fatal compound potassium cyanide.”
“a Total of nine letters have come to the attention of the police and are being investigated as blackmail. All containing white powder and so far we have been able to conclude that, in several of the cases involved potassium cyanide, reports etermediebolaget NHK.”
“It hit the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, writes on his English-language site to them a letter was delivered on Friday morning.”
“in Addition to the powder, it has accompanied the patches in which the sender threatens to spread fake pharmaceutical products with potassium cyanide in the japanese market – if it is not the equivalent of approximately 280 000 sek disbursed in kryptovaluta.”
“several of the letters it has been written that the sender is Shoko Asahara, the leader of the domedagssekten Aum Shinrikyo which carried out, inter alia, saringasattacken in the Tokyo subway in 1995 when at least twelve people were killed. He was executed in July last year.”
“All the letters poststämplades in Tokyo on Thursday. The police assume that everyone have been sent by the same person.”
“Several of the pharmaceutical companies report that they received letters with similar threats in January last year, police investigating a connection to.”
“the Pharmaceutical companies are in the big cities of Tokyo and Osaka, specialised in branded in Sapporo in northern Japan and the Mainichi Shimbuns publishers are located in Tokyo.”
