OSAKA -- Major confectioner and food manufacturer Ezaki Glico Co. received threats in late June that its products would be poisoned if a 50 million yen ransom was not paid, it was learned Friday.
After receiving a blackmail letter June 28, a box of the company's curry laced with insecticide was found with a note saying "poisoned" on a supermarket shelf in Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka Prefecture, the following day.
The curry was one of four types of precooked curry sold by the firm.