(Church of) Scientology History in Toronto, Part Two«The vital targets on which we must invest
most of our time are:
T1. Depopularizing the enemy to a point of total obliteration. T2. Taking over the control or allegiance of the heads or proprietors of all news media. T3. Taking over the control or allegiance of key political figures.» — L. Ron Hubbard, HCOPL, 16 February 1969, "TARGETS, DEFENSE" (Church of)
Scientology History in Toronto, Part One Reference:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/80b56ff9de7c874b SCIENTOLOGY HISTORY IN TORONTO, PART TWOOn March 1st, 1983, a Sergeant from the Ontario Provincial Police [O.P.P.] Anti-Rackets Branch swore an information before His Honour Chief Justice F. Hayes of the Provincial Court (Criminal Division) to obtain a warrant to search the premises of The Church of Scientology of Toronto [hereafter referred to as "Scientology"]. The information had a total length of more than 1,000 pages, including several appendices. On the same day, Chief Judge Hayes issued a warrant authorizing a search of the premises on March 3rd and 4th. The information presented to Judge Hayes proposed three allegations of criminality: Count 1 [tax fraud]:
... that he has reasonable grounds to believe
that the above described things to be searched for
will afford evidence in respect to the commission of
offences against the Criminal Code of Canada, to
wit:
that L. Ron HUBBARD, Mary Sue HUBBARD, CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY of Toronto and Garry JEPSON (President), Dan CROCINI (Secretary), Arnelle PEARSE (Treasurer), Kathy WHITMORE (Past Secretary), and others unlawfully did between January 1, 1976 and February 15, 1983 at the City of Toronto, in the Judicial District of York and elsewhere in Canada commit an indictable offence, to wit: by deceit, falsehood or other fraudulent means did defraud Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of Ontario (Province of Ontario, Ministry of Revenue) and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada (Government of Canada, Department of National Revenue, Taxation) of money, property, valuable securities of a value exceeding $200.00 by representing to those officials responsible for registration of non-profit corporations under the Corporations Tax Act of Ontario and the Income Tax Act of Canada that SCIENTOLOGY was a non-profit organization, collecting "donations" from its members, without distribution of profit to any of its proprietors or members thereby obtaining non-profit status and exemption from corporate taxes otherwise payable while said SCIENTOLOGY in fact distributed and paid monies or profits raised by the Church of Scientology to the personal use of L. Ronald HUBBARD, Mary Sue HUBBARD and other members of the Church of Scientology, such profits arising from the sale of courses and other materials, contary to Section 338(1)(a) of the Criminal Code of Canada. Count 2 [fraud]:
. . .
and further that L. Ron HUBBARD, Mary
Sue HUBBARD, CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY of Toronto,
Gerry JEPSON (President), Dan CROCINI
(Secretary), Arnelle PEARSE (Treasurer), Kathy
WHITMORE (Past Secretary) and others unlawfully did
between January 1, 1976 and February 15, 1983 at the
City of Toronto, in the Judicial District of York
and elsewhere in Canada, commit an indictable
offence, to wit: did defraud the public, more
specifically persons to whom Scientology made
representations concerning the qualities of and
benefits receivable from, courses, including the
Purification Rundown, and from E-Meters, for sale at
costly prices in no way related to the real value of
such things, such things being without the
represented benefits, thus by deceit, falsehood or
other fraudulent means defrauding such persons of
money, property or valuable security of a value
exceeding $200.00 contrary to Section 338(1)(a) of
the Criminal Code of Canada.
Count 3 [conspiracy]:
And further that L. Ron HUBBARD, Mary Sue
HUBBARD, CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY of Toronto,
Hilarie ROCKL,
Scott CARMICHAEL,
Harvey SHMIEDEKE,
Nicole CRELLIN, Marion EVOY,
William O'MEARA, Gerry JEPSON, Dan CROCINI,
Arnelle PEARSE, and others unlawfully did between
January 1, 1972 and February 15, 1983 at Toronto, in
the Judicial District of York and elsewhere in
Canada, commit an indictable offence, to wit: did
conspire together and with other persons to effect a
lawful purpose, the operation of Scientology-owned
and controlled companies and organizations, by
unlawful means, to wit: the use of the GUARDIAN
OFFICE OF SCIENTOLOGY to commit indictable offences,
including theft and break, enter and theft, when
perceived necessary by the said persons to protect
the interests of Scientology contary to Section
423(2)(b) of the Criminal Code of Canada.
On March 3rd, an additional information was sworn before Justice of the Peace A. Kosteka, to obtain a warrant to search the premises of Michael P. Zaharia. The warrant was issued the same day. The search warrants were executed by officers of the O.P.P. together with forensic accountants and accountants of the Federal Department of Revenue. The six floors of the Scientology premises were searched from 2:30 PM on March 3rd until 11:00 AM on March 4th. 129 OPP officers attended, with about 30 officers doing the actual searching. Some 850 boxes containing about 39,000 files and books, or about 2,000,000 documents, statements and tapes were removed. The warrant to search Zaharia's house was executed on March 3rd, and two boxes of documents, records and correspondence were removed. |
