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Ezaki Glico president Katsuhisa Ezaki was kidnapped from his home in 1984 before escaping three days later

The extortionists later claimed to have laced the company’s candies with cyanide, prompting massive recalls of its products, including Pocky, the company’s popular chocolate-covered biscuit sticks

Police interviewed more than 100,000 people but never identified the suspects, who used the moniker "Monster with 21 Faces"

An elusive group of extortionists terrorized Japan in the 1980s, kidnapping a candy executive and triggering a nationwide food scare that left millions afraid to open a box of sweets.

Ezaki Glico president Katsuhisa Ezaki was taken from his home near Osaka while preparing for a bath on March 18, 1984. The company, best known globally as the maker of Po

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