The Moscow branch of Aum Shinrikyo ( Japanese オ ウ ム 真理 教 モ ス ク ワ 支部 ) is the former overseas branch of the Aum Shinrikyo sect, opened in Moscow in September 1992. From September 1993 until its closure, he was headed by Fumihiro Joeyu , and Oti Toshiyasu remained his deputy.
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History
After the collapse of the USSR, the sect significantly enlarged its ranks by attracting the inhabitants of Russia - the sect grew at the expense of Moscow by 35 thousand members, more than in all of Japan.
In addition to Russia, the sect had a presence in the United States , Germany , and Sri Lanka , but it was the Moscow office that could boast the largest membership in its ranks and was engaged in a kind of cult activity, broadcasting its own radio station and establishing contacts with major Russian politicians ( Oleg Lobov , Alexander Rutskoi , Ruslan Khasbulatov ). On March 15, 1995, in the suit of the Committee to Save Youth from Totalitarian Sects, the Ostankino District Court decided to seize the sect’s property, a ban on activity was issued on March 23, and the department was liquidated on April 18 [1] [2] . However, only in September 1999 the Moscow City Court canceled a private ruling of the Ostankino court, according to which all these years, the proceeds from the sale of property seized from the sect continued to remain in its account. Over four years, the amount increased to 2.435 million rubles [3] . Hayakawa Kiyohide , who was also in Russia from March 17 to 22, came under the sanction of a prosecutor.
On July 21, 1995, the 34-year-old Toshiyasu Outi, who was part of the so-called “Aum Shinrike” Ministry of Russia and headed the Moscow branch of the sect in recent months , was detained along with law enforcement agencies on the border with Finland in February and March 1997. Two more heads of the Russian branch of Aum, Rio Ando and Keiji Tanimura, were detained, and all three were accused by the Prosecutor General of Russia of creating associations that encroached on the personality and rights of citizens, as well as for damage by deception. The trial against them did not take place, because the suspects were released on recognizance not to leave and surety. Later the case was dismissed because after more than a year and a half of interviewing several hundred witnesses and several tens of victims, psychological, social and psychiatric examinations, investigators concluded that, due to a change in the situation, the leaders of the Russian branch of Aum Shinrike no longer pose a public danger [4] .
It is known from the investigation that in Vienna and Bali, a sect member Muscovite Sigachev, who was heavily surviving Asahara’s arrest, was able to receive $ 30 thousand and 9 million yen from the remaining Japanese members Aum Shinrikyo allegedly for the purchase and distribution of religious literature. Subsequently, it became known that the Japanese, learning about the upcoming operation, tried to dissuade Sigachev and his accomplices. The entire stock of weapons was hidden in two punching bags and sent from the Yaroslavl station through the luggage compartment guide of the mail car to Vladivostok. On March 2, 2000, Sigachev went on a tourist trip to Japan, where he outlined the sites of terrorist attacks for two weeks. As such, metro stations, a leisure park, shopping centers in Tokyo, as well as a 15-story commercial center in the city of Aomori were chosen. The plan for the upcoming crime was to illegally penetrate a rented boat to Japan with the aim of laying explosives in the intended places and then demanding the Japanese government to release Shoko Asahara and pay $ 10 million. On June 22, 2000, Sigachev visited Japan again to clarify the procedure for the upcoming operation, but three days later he returned because he decided that he was under the supervision of the Japanese police.
On July 1, 2000, in Vladivostok , FSB officers detained the head of the Russian cell, Dmitry Sigachev, and its members Boris Tupeyko, Dmitry Voronov, and Alexander Shevchenko. According to operational data, the sectarians were planning to carry out a series of terrorist acts in Japan with the aim of freeing Asahara. It was supposed to be hidden in one of several apartments bought for this in the village of Slavyanka in the Primorsky Territory . During searches of the detainees' apartments and garage, 4 TT pistols, a Kalashnikov assault rifle , ammunition for them, as well as improvised explosive devices in the form of TNT and RDX bombs , and photographs of crowded places in Tokyo , Sapporo and Aomori were found . With reference to the data of the Strana.ru portal, the Kommersant newspaper notes that the explosives found would have been enough, with the most conservative estimates, for 12 powerful explosions in these three Japanese cities. An unsent letter was also found to the Japanese Prime Minister demanding the release of Shoko Asahara, threatening that " our battle group, located in Japan, will begin the systematic destruction of the population: women, men, children and the elderly " [5] [ 6] .
In January 2002, members of a terrorist group were sentenced to various terms (Dmitry Sigachev sentenced to 8 years in prison, Boris Tupeyko to 6.5, and Dmitry Voronov to 4.5 years in prison) of serving sentences in confinement in high security prisons property. Sigachev was also sentenced to pay a fine of 100 minimum wages . Alexander Shevchenko was sentenced to 3 years probation with a suspended sentence of 2.5 years. Alexei Yurchuk was declared insane, he was prescribed compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital [6] [7] .
On May 17, 2000, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Alexy II criticized Aum Shinrikyo and her Moscow branch during a visit to Tokyo for drawing people in attempts to fill the vacuum in their souls [8] .
Recruiting Points
- Russian-Japanese University
- Alekseevskaya (metro station, Moscow)
- River Station
- Olympic (sports complex, Moscow)
- Hammer and Sickle (platform)
- Baumanskaya (metro station)
Outside Moscow
- Kazan
- Vladikavkaz
- Chelyabinsk
- Miass
- Vladivostok
See also
- Incident with Sigachev
Notes
- ↑ Kanterov, 2005 , In April 1995, a court decision was made to liquidate Aum Sinrique in Russia ..
- ↑ Sokovkin, Alexey ' The Teaching of Truth Aum' was stripped of the rights of a legal entity // Kommersant Newspaper, No. 71 (789), 04/19/1995
- ↑ Roman Kostikov, Sergey Dergachev The Moscow City Court’s decision is dedicated to the victims of Aum Sinrique // Kommersant newspaper, No. 178 (1822), 09/30/1999
- ↑ Stulov, Oleg The leaders of the Russian AUM Syrique are not touched. They are no longer dangerous // Kommersant newspaper, No. 38 (1441), 03/05/1998
- ↑ Member of the Russian branch of Aum Sinrique recognized as insane // Kommersant , December 6, 2001
- ↑ 1 2 The Russian members of Aum Shinrikyo were punished gently for not saving their teacher // Kommersant Newspaper, No. 11 (2380), January 24, 2002.
- ↑ In Vladivostok, the trial of the case of the coastal militants of the religious sect “Aum Shinrikyo” was completed // RIA Novosti , January 23, 2002.
- ↑ orthodox-newspaper.ru
Literature
- Aum Shinrikyo / I. Ya. Kanterov // Ankylosis - Bank. - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2005. - P. 493. - ( Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004—2017, vol. 2). - ISBN 5-85270-330-3 .
- 情報 時代 の オ ウ ム 真理 教, Inoue Nobutaka , Shunju