Last AUM fugitive arrested

Last AUM fugitive arrested

OSAKA, Japan - Fumihiro Joyu, the leader of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a group that split off from the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, gives a press conference in Osaka on June 15, 2012, following the arrest earlier in the day in Tokyo of Katsuya Takahashi, the last AUM fugitive sought for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. Joyu, the one-time AUM spokesman, urged Takahashi to help get to the bottom of the AUM-related criminal cases.

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