Shoko Asahara
Importantly, the subcommittee's report says the cult members who arrived in Western Australia in September 1993 (bringing mining equipment and various chemicals with them) included Shoko Asahara himself. The leader of the Aum cult arrived in Western Australia with a group of followers "including five females under the age of fifteen who were traveling without their parents". Also in the group was Hideo Murai (No. 3 in the organization, holding a doctorate in astrophysics), while Hayakawa (No. 2) had arrived earlier that month.