A police raid of eight facilities related to Aum Shinrikyo on Tuesday revealed that major companies and government agencies had placed orders with a computer software company believed to be a major source of funds for the cult, investigators said.
Public security officials said the deals with such high-profile clients may have been an effort on the part of the cult to get hold of important data and that investigations would focus on how the software firm managed to get the orders.
Police searched the facilities on suspicion that a cultist lied in a contract he made with a real estate agency when he rented an apartment in Tokyo's Arakawa Ward.