Russia Arrests Scientologist for Stealing $2 Million and Giving to Church
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Authorities in Russia say a woman stole money given to her for dream homes and donated it to the Church of Scientology.
Ekaterina Zaborskikh allegedly stole 130 million rubles ($2 million) between 2012 and 2014 by selling Russians them apartments that were never built by her construction company, an indictment in St. Petersburg alleged last week, as reported by Komsomolskaya Pravda. Part of that money was funnelled to her Church, prosecutors say.
In 2014, a woman identified only as Anna told NTV that she had paid 2.5 million rubles for an apartment and was told that construction would start imminently. The project was then frozen, and she eventually found out that the company had never gotten approvals for the construction.
At the time, an attorney for Olimp, the construction company, said that his client had not yet been charged.
Prosecutors say Zaborskikh gave the cash into the Moscow Church of Scientology disguised as donations.
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I feel as though there was a breakdown in the vetting process.
Gotta get those OT levels.
At least if she's held in jail she has rights. If she was in Scientology jail, she just might starve to death in a room "by accident" or something.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;50203780]At least if she's held in jail she has rights. If she was in Scientology jail, she just might starve to death in a room "by accident" or something.[/QUOTE]
To be honest this is Russian prison, you're probably just as likely to die in there
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;50204440]To be honest this is Russian prison, you're probably just as likely to die in there[/QUOTE]
Imagine if the prison were both Russian [i]and[/i] Scientology
[QUOTE=Jimesu_Evil;50204659]Imagine if the prison were both Russian [i]and[/i] Scientology[/QUOTE]
You're already dead.
Rule #1 of being a corporate criminal in Russia: make sure the Kremlin gets its cut.
But they had to reach the next level!
[QUOTE=Retardation;50205153]russian prisons aren't actually that bad
they're not norwegian tier but also not cambodian tier, they're just average[/QUOTE]
"Average" when it comes to prisons is still pretty bad, but at least it's not "you might die" tier, I guess.
Why is everyone ignoring the fact that scientology is used to launder money. The piece of shit cult should be banned from every damn country that exist.
[QUOTE=CoreWaffle;50206085]Why is everyone ignoring the fact that sciencetology is used to launder money. The piece of shit cult should be banned from every damn country that exist.[/QUOTE]
I don't see anyone here ignoring that? It's kind of understood as a given. [del]It'd also be less funny if you could spell it right considering it's spelled properly several times in the thread.[/del] Android is a tool of Xenu, confirmed
If you're talking about why countries are "ignoring" it, three reasons:
1) Scientology claims religious protection and religious freedoms and cracking down on it would set uncomfortable precedents that would need to be worked through very carefully to not inhibit legitimate religions. Scientologists are not committing terrorist attacks, so national courts have bigger issues to deal with first.
2) Scientology has fuckbuckets of money it's ready to dump onto lawyers. It will fight wars of attrition in court, and fight dirty. Scientology beat the IRS's attempt to deny it religious tax-exemption in the US by starting [I]hundreds[/I] of lawsuits against the IRS in almost every state; these lawsuits were based on bullshit and the IRS would win if the case made it that far (the Scientologist could just drop it first and avoid everything), but importantly it forced the IRS to respond to all of them and devote basically its entire legal budget just to defending itself against Scientology's bullshit lawsuits (with no budget to deal with legal cases involving [I]literally the rest of the country[/I]). I would not be surprised if they've picked up the Sovereign Citizen tactic of filing false liens and other legal harassment against judges/other authority figures handling their cases, as well. It doesn't care about winning, it cares about not losing so it can continue doing what it's doing.
3) Corruption, plain and simple. Scientology is no stranger to blackmail, bribery, and straight-up intimidation. It's said that two representatives of L. Ron showed up with a briefcase at CIA headquarters without an appointment and demanded to see the CIA head regarding the various Scientology lawsuits (see 2). And they got it. It's not known what was said during that meeting, but when the meeting was over,
- the lawsuits were all immediately called off nationwide, and
- the Church of Scientology was not only recognized as a tax-exempt religious organization, it was granted [I]special benefits other religions didn't get[/I]
Never underestimate a cult with hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in their war chest.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;50206183]I don't see anyone here ignoring that? It's kind of understood as a given. It'd also be less funny if you could spell it right considering it's spelled properly several times in the thread.
If you're talking about why countries are "ignoring" it, three reasons:
1) Scientology claims religious protection and religious freedoms and cracking down on it would set uncomfortable precedents that would need to be worked through very carefully to not inhibit legitimate religions. Scientologists are not committing terrorist attacks, so national courts have bigger issues to deal with first.
2) Scientology has fuckbuckets of money it's ready to dump onto lawyers. It will fight wars of attrition in court, and fight dirty. Scientology beat the IRS's attempt to deny it religious tax-exemption in the US by starting [I]hundreds[/I] of lawsuits against the IRS in almost every state; these lawsuits were based on bullshit and the IRS would win if the case made it that far (the Scientologist could just drop it first and avoid everything), but importantly it forced the IRS to respond to all of them and devote basically its entire legal budget just to defending itself against Scientology's bullshit lawsuits (with no budget to deal with legal cases involving [I]literally the rest of the country[/I]). I would not be surprised if they've picked up the Sovereign Citizen tactic of filing false liens and other legal harassment against judges/other authority figures handling their cases, as well. It doesn't care about winning, it cares about not losing so it can continue doing what it's doing.
3) Corruption, plain and simple. Scientology is no stranger to blackmail, bribery, and straight-up intimidation. It's said that two representatives of L. Ron showed up with a briefcase at CIA headquarters without an appointment and demanded to see the CIA head regarding the various Scientology lawsuits (see 2). And they got it. It's not known what was said during that meeting, but when the meeting was over,
- the lawsuits were all immediately called off nationwide, and
- the Church of Scientology was not only recognized as a tax-exempt religious organization, it was granted [I]special benefits other religions didn't get[/I]
Never underestimate a cult with hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in their war chest.[/QUOTE]Yeah it's sad how the IRS couldnt defend itself against them. And it was my mobilephone's autocorrect that spelled scientology wrong.
Scientology can no longer be defeated by legal means, as it practically owns the legal system with how much money and lawyers it can throw around.
They will have to be removed by the people in the oldest, dirtiest fashion we know.
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They will have to be removed by the people in the oldest, dirtiest fashion we know.[/QUOTE]
Good ole' killing.
Hopefully somebody does it someday.
[QUOTE=Jimesu_Evil;50204659]Imagine if the prison were both Russian [i]and[/i] Scientology[/QUOTE]
And then it turns it out its actually alright.
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