Admin l Friday, Nov. 30, 2018
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – The Oktyabrsky District Court sitting in St. Petersburg on Thursday sentenced Ekaterina Zaborskikh, the chairman of several housing cooperatives to accumulated sentence of eight and half years in prison for embezzling 33 millions rubles($500,000) from real estate investors and transferring the money to the Church of Scientology, Moscow.
Earlier in October 2017, She was sentenced to six and half years for embezzling over 130 rubles about $2 million from real estate investors for the benefit the Church of Scientology Moscow. Rapsi, the Russian News Agency reported that the court ordered Ekaterina Zaborshikh to pay 600,000 rubles ($9,000) as costs.
Her victims are also demanding a total sum of 133 million rubles from the defendant.
The court was told that the defendant was responsible for deceiving people into paying her money under the guise of selling apartments, houses and plots of land around St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region even when she had no capacity for such real estate deal. She was said to have stolen 130 million rubles from her clients between 2012 and 2014.
After tricking her victims, Zaborskikh would among other things transfer the money to the Church of Scientology Moscow”.
Scientology teaches that people are immortal spiritual beings who have forgotten their true nature based on the teaching of L. Ron Hubbard.
“Scientology’s central mythology developed around the original notion of the thetan. In Scientology, the thetan is the individual expression of “theta”, described by Neusner as “the cosmic source and life force”. The thetan is the true human identity, rendering humans as “pure spirit and godlike”. The religion’s mythology holds the belief that “in the primordial past, thetans applied their creative abilities to form the physical universe”. Contrary to the biblical narrative that shows that the universe was created by a divine, sole creator, Scientology holds that “the universe was created by theta in the form of individualized expressions”, says the Wikipedia.
