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September 10, 2008

An organized fraud

Judge Jean-Christophe Hullin has ruled that the Scientologists' Celebrity Center, bookstore and seven Church leaders should be tried for fraud and "illegally practicing as pharmacists".

A French judge has ordered two departments and seven prominent members of the Church of Scientology in France to stand trial on charges of organized fraud, a judicial source said on Monday.

The latest suit centers on a complaint made in 1998 by a woman who said she was enrolled into the Church of Scientology by a group of people she met outside a metro station. In the following months, she said she paid 140,000 francs (21,340 euros) for "purification packs" and books which she said were a fraud. Other complaints then surfaced, prolonging the investigation.

Via Agent Bedhead who has more regarding organized fraud. Specifically, Will Smith’s New Village Academy; supposedly not a school of Scientology.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 10, 2008 08:57 AM