Pay the victims, and file the reports.
Compensation to victims of the sarin attacks runs through a court-supervised scheme. Twice-yearly reporting of members, assets and premises is a legal obligation under the observation disposition, and further restrictive dispositions have followed failures to comply.
The compensation scheme is the most concrete thing Aleph does that Aum did not. Victims of the Matsumoto and Tokyo attacks and the families of those killed are owed sums that run into billions of yen, and payment runs through a court-supervised arrangement rather than through the group's discretion. Aleph has met part of the obligation and has repeatedly fallen behind. Separately, the observation disposition requires the group to report its members, assets and premises twice a year, and further restrictive dispositions have been issued when it has not.
Aum Shinrikyo has been under an observation disposition since February 2000 under the Act on the Control of Organizations Which Have Committed Acts of Indiscriminate Mass Murder; the successor groups together number roughly 1,600 members across about 30 facilities in 15 prefectures.
Public Security Intelligence Agency, Ministry of Justice, Japan, Aum topic pages (rendered)Translated and condensed from the agency's Japanese pages. The 1999 Act was written for this group and has not been applied to any other.
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