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Lawyer to File Criminal Complaint Against ‘Setsuri’ Cult Member

Kyodo News Service, Japan
Aug. 9, 2006
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CHIBA, Japan, Aug. 9 –(Kyodo)– A lawyer representing former followers of the South Korean cult group “Setsuri,” or Providence, said Wednesday he will file a criminal complaint with police on Thursday against a South Korean woman he says is in charge of the group’s activities in Japan, where many women are suspected of having been sexually assaulted by its founder.

The lawyer, Hiroshi Watanabe, alleges the 44-year-old woman, who lives in Chiba City, has violated Japan’s immigration control law by unlawfully obtaining a visa from Japanese authorities and conducting missionary work and other activities outside the scope of the visa.

The woman is also suspected of abetting assaults allegedly committed by founder Jung Myung Seok, 61, who is wanted by South Korean authorities on rape charges, by sending many female followers to him.

After filing the complaint, Watanabe said he will ask the Chiba office of the Tokyo immigration bureau to revoke the woman’s visa.

The group was established in South Korea around 1980 and became active in Japan around 1987. It is estimated to have more than 2,000 followers, most of them students and other young people.

The cult has no headquarters in Japan and uses apartment buildings as its offices. It usually passes itself off as a sports, music or cheerleading club on campuses, or as groups of models.

The group’s several senior members based in Japan are believed to have introduced female followers to Jung and taken them to his hideouts on several occasions.

Jung is said to have raped the women, pretending in many cases to conduct breast cancer checks on them.

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