A court in Japan on Tuesday ordered the local branch of the Church of the Unification, aka the Moonies, dissolved and its tax-exempt status revoked, capping a rough three years for the South Korea-based far right extremist sect that began with the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by a man aggrieved over his mother’s indoctrination into the cult, the AP reports. The church can appeal to higher courts but it’s going to be a steep climb to overturn it.

Abe, like other conservative politicians worldwide, including convicted felon President Trump and near-lynching-victim former Vice President Mike Pence, have had ties to the Unification Church. Nicknamed for their founder, the late Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who thought he was Jesus and that Korean people were the master race (a belief that the church’s non-Korean membership willingly agrees with), the Moonies are a serious financial suck on their adherents, and the shooter, 42 year-old Tetsuya Yamagami, believed his mother was bankrupted by her devotion to the Unification Church and took it out on Abe, blasting him in the back with a homemade shotgun.

The Moonies have deep links to the American Conservatives, roping in Pence to speak at their 2022 global forum in Seoul (with Trump also addressing them via video), and owning the UPI wire service, the Washington Times, and other media outlets, not to mention the New Yorker hotel.

Following Abe’s assassination, the Moonies put out a statement saying “guns have no place in our religious beliefs or practices,” which might be technically correct about their mainline branch. It’s also a flat out lie when you consider the Pennsylvania sub-sect called the “Church of the Iron Rod,” founded by one of Moon’s sons, and whose religious beliefs and practices often feature a golden, jewel-encrusted AK-47. Republican Pennsylvania state Senator Doug Mastriano considers himself a friend of the Iron Rod crew, as do traitor Mike Flynn and alcoholic degenerate Steve Bannon.