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Dec 12, 1988
Scientology leader still jailed in Spain; church charges 'persecution' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
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Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The president of the Church of Scientology and 10 other members arrested in an investigation of alleged fraud and tax evasion have been released on more than $1 million bail, their lawyer said Sunday.
A judge's order releasing church President Heber Jentzsch, an American, and the others came Saturday after facts were presented that "corrected" some allegations against the group, said the lawyer, Jose Luis Chamorro.
Jentzsch, 53, a native of Salt Lake City, lives in Los Angeles.
Judge Jose Maria ...
Dec 12, 1988
Scientology leader, 10 others, freed on bail in Spain — Los Angeles Times (California)More: cs.cmu.edu , link
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Los Angeles Times (California) MADRID, Spain — The president of the Church of Scientology and 10 other members arrested in an investigation of alleged fraud and tax evasion have been released on more than $1 million bail, their lawyer said Sunday.
A judge's order releasing church President Heber Jentzsch, an American, and the others came Saturday after facts were presented that "corrected" some allegations against the group, said the lawyer, Jose Luis Chamorro.
Jentzsch, 53, a native of Salt Lake City, lives in Los Angeles. ...
Nov 24, 1988
Church of Scientology threatens to sue judge — UPI
Nov 24, 1988
Scientology leader sent to jail in Spain — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) A judge in Spain ordered the head of the Church of Scientology International jailed Wednesday pending possible indictment on charges of fraud, criminal association and tax evasion. Judge Jose Maria Vazquez Honrubia said it will be at least a week before Heber Jentzsch of Los Angeles sees a second judge about setting bail. He said Jentzsch was being sent to a prison outside Madrid. The judge said authorities had frozen $1.76 million in bank accounts belonging to officials of the U.S.-based ...
Nov 24, 1988
Spain expels 6 Scientologists in fraud case — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Nov 24, 1988
Spain jails Scientology leader / American faces indictment on charges of fraud, tax evasion — Sacramento Bee (California)
Nov 24, 1988
Spanish police swoop on cult — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
Nov 23, 1988
Judge jails Scientology head for suspected fraud, tax evasion — Associated Press
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Associated Press A judge ordered the head of the Church of Scientology International jailed on Wednesday pending possible indictment on charges of fraud, criminal association and tax evasion. Judge Jose Maria Vazquez Honrubia said it would be at least a week before Heber Jentzsch of Los Angeles sees a second judge about setting bail. He told reporters Jentzsch was being sent to Carabanchel Prison outside Madrid and said the legal process could take months or even years before it reaches trial. Vazquez Honrubia ...
Nov 23, 1988
Spain seizes Scientology leaders — San Francisco Chronicle (California)More: link
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San Francisco Chronicle (California) Police arrested 69 people in a raid on a hotel and accused 45 of them of fraud, illegal association and forgery for being members of the Church of Scientology. Among those held was Heber Jentzsch, 53, of Los Angeles, worldwide director of the faith, and two unidentified Americans, judicial sources said. In 1986 and again last June, Spain's Justice Ministry rejected a petition by the Church of Scientology for accreditation as a legitimate religious institution on the ground that the group's ...
Nov 22, 1988
45 Held For Questioning After Raid on Scientology Meeting — Associated Press
Nov 22, 1988
Scientology chiefs from 8 nations detained in Spain — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Nov 22, 1988
Three Britons held in mass swoop on cult — Daily Mail (UK)
Oct 18, 1988
Church can be sued on recruiting // Beliefs protected but not conduct, Justices rule — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Philip Hager Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) SAN FRANCISCO — In a major ruling on the separation of church and state, the California Supreme Court held Monday that a religious organization may be sued for fraud for allegedly "brainwashing" unknowing recruits into joining the church. The justices ruled 6 to 1 that two former members of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church can proceed to trial with claims that they were tricked by recruiters who denied they were church members and then used subtle "mind-control" techniques to ...
Oct 18, 1988
High court to rule on Scientology case — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a government appeal in a Los Angeles case involving the Church of Scientology in order to decide how far the Internal Revenue Service can go in obtaining and using confidential documents in tax-fraud inquiries. The government launched an investigation in 1984 of the tax returns of L. Ron Hubbard, the church's founder who died Jan. 24, 1986. The IRS said it suspected that millions of dollars in church funds were transferred to Hubbard ...
Jul 24, 1988
Court ends $1-billion suit alleging Scientology fraud — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) A Los Angles Superior Court judge Friday dismissed a $1-billion class-action lawsuit filed by former members of the Church of Scientology accusing its late founder of stealing money from the organization and threatening critics. Judge Barnet Cooperman ruled that the plaintiffs failed to successfully back up their allegations of fraud and breach of fiduciary responsibility. The suit was filed in January, 1987, by six former Scientologists and the organization Freedom for All in Religion, which claims to represent as many as ...
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