ISKCON leaders implicated in financial cover-up
ISKCON leaders
implicated in financial cover-up
Spring 2004 In our last issue we highlighted the amazing story of former ISKCON Guru, Harikesa Swami , who for years had been falsely posing as a completely renounced sannyasi and initiating Guru, yet somehow amassed enough money to buy a luxury villa on the French Riviera worth over a million dollars.
Stories like this prove that ISKCON's bogus Guru system is an open invitation for huge financial abuse. On the strength of their artificially inflated, special status, the unauthorised Gurus in ISKCON are able to attract vast sums of money from their hapless disciples that should rightly go to the direct service of Srila Prabhupada's institution.
Even the corrupt and self-serving GBC, most of whom are themselves posing as initiating Gurus, realised that this problem needed at least some cosmetic attention in order to make it appear that they were policing the situation.
After allowing the...