The cult has been rebuilding its finances by selling discount computers. It has also been acquiring property around Japan, to the dismay of local residents. Provincial governments have blocked Aum from setting up bases in areas where it buys land. Asahara and other Aum leaders are currently on trial for murder on charges emming from the subway gassing. Following the subway attack, Aum was stripped of its protection as a religious group, but the government stopped short of using an anti-subversion law to ban it.
Members still have the constitutional right to practice their religious beliefs.