Money Laundering

Income Tax raid unearths huge cash and more than Rs.500 crore hawala operations by self styled Christian denomination head KP Yohannan of Believers Church & Gospel Asia

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IT raids on Christian denomination head K P Yohannan

In a nationwide raid at many States, the Income Tax department unearths huge cash and more than 500 crores illegal (hawala) money swindling by self-styled Christian denomination head K P Yohannan, who is running Believers Church and Gospel Asia. These organizations for the past few decades routing millions of dollars to India for religious conversion, basically Hindus from lower castes and facing a lot of allegations. This Kerala based evangelist had raised his own denomination and self-appointed as Metropolitan and Income Tax from November 5 conducting raids at his offices in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Karnataka, Chandigarh, Punjab, and Telangana. Income Tax found that he floated more than 30 trusts and even deposited money in Kolkata based shell firms for money swindling.

The headquarters of K P Yohannan’s organization Believers Church is in Thiruvalla in Kerala. The group operates places of worship, a number of schools and colleges across the country, a medical college, and a hospital in Kerala. Raids were going at 66 places of Yohannan’s Churches and other establishments who enjoy big clout and having associations with many top political leaders. For the past 30 years, this group was getting huge money from the USA, Canada, and many European churches for conversion in India.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is also expected to probe into the huge money laundering and routing by this controversial evangelist.

“The Believers Church and Gospel Asia group operates about 30 trusts, registered across the country, and most of them exist only on paper and have been found to be used for routing the unaccounted funds and for accommodation transactions. It has been found that the modus operandi of the group is to systematically inflate expenses with the help of other parties, who would return the inflated amount in cash through domestic hawala channels to the functionaries of the group. Some of these other parties were also covered in the search action. The search has led to the unearthing of a number of real estate transactions involving unaccounted cash payments,” said the Income Tax officials explain the modus operandi for the self-styled Metropolitan K P Yohannan. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is also expected to probe into the huge money laundering and routing by this controversial evangelist.

“The evidence found so far indicate that the siphoning of funds in cash may be running into hundreds of crores of rupees. Unexplained cash of approximately Rs.6 crores has also been found during the search, including Rs.3.85 crore in a place of worship in Delhi. Substantial electronic computing and data storage has been found, which is being examined. Further investigations are going on,” said the tax sleuths.

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  • Who the heck writes a horrible article filled with falsehoods & nonsensical narratives? Terrible language, grammar.

  • True and well said. We need to introspect ourselves. I have served as social worker for 18 yrs at grassroots level and felt that all my efforts are going in vain because of the political ill-will and discrimination that exist in our own society.

  • This is all Nonsense talk. The Vedic India originated in Kurgan culture of the Central Asian steppes. Indeed, the Vedic religion, including the names of certain deities, was in essence a branch of the same religious tradition as the ancient Greeks, Romans, Persians, and Germanic peoples but Jewish religion which precedes Christianity dates much before that period in India.
    With all this information at the fingertip still people are so DUMB.

    • This Steppe theory has been torn to shreds in many posts in PGurus. Search on steppe and you can find it.

  • Absurd. Do you know there are dalit christians. If they are welcoming why there is a caste called dalit christians. Come out of the subversion. Kerala even has a department for serving people who are converted from Hinduism. Go to govt web site and check.

  • When will people come to realize that they have been participating in the greatest ever Ponzi scheme in the history of mankind !

    That is the root cause of conversion and other problems around the world like loss of ethics, morals, reason etc

    Conversion will stop when realization comes and the onze scheme stops.

  • All the problems in the world is because of worshipers of God,don't worship God, worship humanity and all your problems will be solved.

  • We are deviating from the news Topic. It say someone Christian father has brought foreign money into the land and helped/converted the poor.

    Why are we so against them. Look at what the real scene is .
    1.In the dollar it says , In God we trust..which means every Hindu Indian who is in America, believes that Jesus is God. So its Sundar pichai, Satya nadella.
    All the Iyers and Iyengars who settled in US all believe Jesus, directly or indirectly.
    We should stop this first.
    2. Every IT company is in the US, so we earn through the dollar..again a christian God. Let's throw away all the IT company's from India.
    3. Let's stop writing in English as this is from British language. Stop sending your child to English medium school. Stop sending them to US , UK for higher studies.
    4. Why did the poor embrace that religion ,bcos they were welcomed by them..Why do we have caste system in India. Stop this 1st please. Our system is only based on caste, we should spread equality. Come on my dear friends grow up..we need to clean up our own system.
    5. Why should we put petrol from Muslim countries. Stop it 1st...Let's make our own Petrol.
    6. Call back all our Iitians who study here to serve other God's. Stop this.

    Hope all my friends will work towards these points. Let's not find fault in others when we need to change ourselves.
    Jaihind JaiBharat

    • First remove 4 Jains who are running India.
      While you talk of Muslims and Christians they have used this opportunity to control.
      Then you can check the source of "money" after which you can decide who is to blame.

  • This news will fade away ... This is only a small amount....more similar rides to be carried out to tear away many masks.........

  • As if Hindu religious ashrams are apostles of virtue!
    A few months back we heard of IT Raid on ' Kalki Bhagwan Ashram' where similar amounts were unearthed and cash of over Rs.100 CRS were seized.
    In India using Religion to make money was a wonderful tool of 20th century and is an even greater success in 21st Century.

    • This happens in all religious groups. The authorities have a life time of work to unearth misuse and misappropriation of such funds. The auditing of all these accounts is needed on large scale.

    • Hindu ashrams also have Money , but they are not using that money for spreding hate towards other religions and for spreading CANCER(CONVERSIN) as these FRAUS MISSIONARIES are doing from last 70years

  • Please dont tell this cock and bull story of Christian's giving education to India. This is the land of Vedas and Upanishids and Arthasastra which are being analysed by western Christian's and steal them also. So dont brag like this. With this money you can discredit Hindu community with the help of leftists and the socalled secularists and you hound saints like Sankaracharyas by pumping money to our third rate politicians who are ready to betray anything for money. These people must be mercilessly hounded and brought to book. Unfortunately in Kerala the leftists must be shitting in their pants because they can attack only Hindus but not other people pandering to communal politics for votes.

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