Asahara ordered to pay 460 mil. yen over sarin attack

TOKYO, July 25 Kyodo - AUM Shinrikyo religious cult founder Shoko Asahara (file photo) was ordered July 15 by the Tokyo District Court to pay about 460 million yen in compensation to eight family members of four victims of a June 1994 sarin gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. The plaintiffs filed the 545 million yen damages suit in August 1995, about one year after the attack, but proceedings were suspended for nearly four years because the court decided in December 1996 to closely follow proceedings of criminal lawsuits filed against Asahara, 46.

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