4 AUM suspects in 1995 NPA chief shooting released

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Yoshiyuki Kosugi, a former police officer and former member of the AUM Shinrikyo cult, leaves the Metropolitan Police Department on July 28. Kosugi is one of four people arrested over the 1995 shooting of the National Police Agency chief and were released July 28 after prosecutors failed to charge them based on what they thought was new evidence.

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