{"id":6464,"date":"2024-04-01T22:01:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2024-04-01T22:01:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:01:24","slug":"saint-habakkuk-under-investigation-for-money-laundering-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=6464","title":{"rendered":"Saint Habakkuk under investigation for money laundering, fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The investigation into the scandal in Saint Habakkuk monastery includes money laundering, fraud, and obtaining money by false pretences, philenews reported on Monday.<br \/>\nThe investigation follows the discovery of a large sum of undeclared cash on the monastery\u2019s premises.<br \/>\nPhilenews reports that police are looking into possible laundering of criminal proceeds. Investigators are examining how the funds were obtained and why they were not declared to the authorities.<br \/>\nThe Ministry of the Interior has provided details on authorised collections conducted by the Abbey, including their duration and declared earnings (if any). Investigators are determining whether the collected sum matches the undisclosed cash found.<br \/>\nPolice are recovering footage from the monastery\u2019s closed-circuit system to determine when audio recording was activated, what areas were covered, and if any crimes were captured.<br \/>\nExperts are also investigating whether the recordings are stored elsewhere, such as on a cloud storage service.<br \/>\nThe authorities will be questioning the company that installed the system to identify those who authorised sound recording, controlled passwords, and issued recording instructions.<br \/>\nInvestigators are particularly interested in footage from the evening of March 5, when individuals from the Tamassos Bishopric, assisted by a security company, seized control of the monastery and confiscated a safe containing \u20ac807,000. The origin of this money is a key aspect of the investigation.<br \/>\nVideo analysis is expected to address concerns raised by the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection and shed light on potential wrongdoing.<br \/>\nAs previously reported by philenews, police have received complaints from believers who allege they were misled into making substantial donations under the promise of witnessing a cure for personal or familial problems.<br \/>\nCommercial banks are providing information on bank accounts held by two senior monks and another individual. The Department of Land Registry is also contributing details on any property registered in their names, with a focus on how such assets were acquired.<br \/>\n<strong>Counter-complaints filed<\/strong><br \/>\nThe two archimandrites have filed counter-complaints against Bishop Isaias regarding the March 5 events.<br \/>\nTheir lawyers have requested investigations into specific issues, including the closed-circuit system\u2019s operation and alleged threats demanding money from the monastery.<br \/>\nAuthorities are finalising investigations into a separate incident where a monk assaulted a woman with a belt and another serious allegation of sexual harassment.<br \/>\nRead more:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-in-cyprus-com wp-block-embed-in-cyprus-com\"><\/figure>\n<p>Monastery scandal. money laundering, fraud, undeclared cash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scandal in Saint Habakkuk monastery involves money laundering, fraud, and obtaining money by false pretences. A large sum of undeclared cash was found on the premises, leading to an investigation by the police. The Ministry of the Interior provided details on authorised collections conducted by the Abbey to compare with the undisclosed cash. Police are examining footage from the monastery&#8217;s closed-circuit system to determine when audio recording was activated and if any crimes were captured. The origin of \u20ac807,000 seized on March 5 is a key aspect of the investigation. Commercial banks are providing information on bank accounts held by senior monks. Counter-complaints have been filed by two archimandrites against Bishop Isaias. Other investigations include an assault by a monk on a woman and allegations of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1521,1418,1943,1902,611,1525,1512,233,3719,2577,3635,2369,181,641,3343,1059,2110,2226,1419,1342,2218,2796,2121,591,148,2153,2628,1060,1946,1150,4371,184,284,4448,1607,2566,759,827,4441,662,812,114,4591,2389,1944],"class_list":["post-6464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-1521","tag-allegations","tag-assault","tag-bank","tag-banks","tag-bishop-isaias","tag-cash","tag-church","tag-complaints","tag-concerns","tag-crimes","tag-data","tag-donations","tag-earnings","tag-events","tag-fraud","tag-funds","tag-habakkuk","tag-investigation","tag-investigations","tag-investigators","tag-issues","tag-land","tag-lawyers","tag-local","tag-monastery","tag-money","tag-money-laundering","tag-monk","tag-monks","tag-operation","tag-police","tag-property","tag-protection","tag-saint-habakkuk","tag-saint-habakkuk-monastery","tag-scandal","tag-security","tag-service","tag-sexual-harassment","tag-storage","tag-top-news","tag-undeclared-cash","tag-video","tag-woman"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saint Habakkuk under investigation for money laundering, fraud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The scandal in Saint Habakkuk monastery involves money laundering, fraud, and obtaining money by false pretences. 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