Makoto Hirata, the former Aum Supreme Truth cult member arrested on New Year's Eve, says he arrived in Tokyo from Osaka aboard a Shinkansen train earlier that day, according to investigation authorities.
Hirata has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the 1995 abduction and confinement of a 68-year-old Tokyo notary public official in 1995.
The Metropolitan Police Department has confirmed Hirata was caught on security cameras on the Shinkansen platform at JR Shin-Osaka Station.
Believing that Hirata hid in or around Osaka until recently, the MPD has sent investigators to Osaka and is now trying to trace Hirata's footsteps along a subway line. (Yomiuri)
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