OSAKA — Nissin Food Products Co., a leading food maker based in Osaka, received an extortion letter Wednesday containing a threat to put needles in its products unless the company pays 5 million yen, police sources said Saturday.
The incident comes shortly after another Osaka-based company, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., was the target of a similar extortion attempt. The letter sent to Santen demanding money also arrived on Wednesday.
The sources said, however, they do not believe the two cases are related because of a difference in writing style in the letters and the fact they carried different postmarks.
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