Religious group raided for alleged fraud

Religious group raided for alleged fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigators carry out boxes of evidence from the house of Hogen Fukunaga, guru of the ''Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo'' religious group, in Shibuya, Tokyo, on Dec. 1. Police raided facilities linked to the group on suspicion it tricked thousands of people into paying large sums of money to cure what it falsely claimed were serious illnesses.

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