| Cult founder
charged with fraud (05/30/2001)
Japanese prosecutors yesterday charged the founder of a foot-reading
cult with fraud for telling five housewives they would get cancer
unless they handed over thousands of dollars.
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office lodged an indictment
against 55-year-old Hogen Fukunaga, founder of Ho-no-Hana Sanpogyo
sect, with the Tokyo District Court, a court spokesman said.
The sect allegedly obtained a total of 25.02 million yen (US$236,000)
from five former members, all housewives, from December 1994 to
August 1996.
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