Govt to help candy firm
NZPA-Reuter Tokyo The Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Yasuhiro Nakasone, intervened in the case of Japan’s poisoned candy gang yesterday,. offering possible financial help to the confectionery company hit by extortionists. With one Japanese policeman in five hunting for the gang, Mr Nakasone said that he had ordered the Minister of Finance, Mr Noboru Takeshita, to study ways of assisting the victim, the Morinaga Confectionery Company. The company’s sales have plummeted since the gang calling itself “The Man with 21 Faces” started poisoning Morinaga sweets and plant-
ing them on store shelves in a bid to extract an $BOO,OOO ransom. In an unprecedented move, the Ministry of Agriculture urged Government offices and private firms to buy Morinaga sweets straight from the factory and so by-pass the poisoners. At least 15 poisoned packets have been found. But because they were all clearly labelled “poison,” none were eaten. Two more packets of poisoned sweets were found yesterday in a supermarket office mail box in Tokyo. It was the first time cyanidelaced sweets had reached Tokyo from west and central Japan.
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