Police on Sunday questioned a former chief secretary to Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja as part of a widening investigation into allegations that the church provided illicit money to politicians across party lines. Jeong Won-ju, who formerly oversaw the church's…[Continue Reading...]
Police investigating allegations of political lobbying by the Unification Church arrested and questioned Yun Young-ho, former head of the Unification Church’s global headquarters, who was detained at a detention center on the 26th. The police also re-summoned Song Kwang-seok, former…[Continue Reading...]
The Democratic Party of Korea proposed the *Act on the Appointment of Special Prosecutors, etc.*, related to allegations of the Unification Church’s lobbying of political circles with money and valuables, on the 26th. The investigation targets include not only the…[Continue Reading...]
Spanish police arrested five people running a group that charged hefty sums for rituals involving animal sacrifice and illicit drugs. The cult leader was jailed after followers required psychiatric treatment. Spanish National Police dismantled a group in the Canary Islands…[Continue Reading...]
Police investigating allegations that the Unification Church provided money and valuables to politicians summoned and questioned a key figure who managed the sect's funds for about 10 hours. Police were said to have focused on how the funds mobilized for…[Continue Reading...]
Police is under investigation on the 22nd into the Unification Church over allegations of receiving money and valuables, summoning the sect's finance and accounting officials. The Korean National Police Agency's special task force on this day questioned two Unification Church…[Continue Reading...]
The opposition parties on Sunday settled the terms of a special counsel bill to look into a political funding scandal involving the Unification Church that has spilled over from the main opposition People Power Party into the ruling Democratic Party…[Continue Reading...]
Lindsay Allan is a legal scholar studying the state’s duty to protect victims of sexual abuse in cults. Her work examines how governments gain knowledge of systematic harm yet fail to act, especially in patriarchal religious systems, focusing on grooming,…[Continue Reading...]
The Sokoto State Police Command has recorded decisive breakthroughs in its sustained crackdown on crime, with the arrest of the leader of the notorious “Sai Malam” cult group and the exposure of a rape and abduction syndicate that preyed on…[Continue Reading...]
An Inland Empire “shaman” accused of sexually assaulting several young girls must stand trial on a dozen felony charges, a judge ruled Thursday. Ricardo Isaac Flores, 60, of Rialto was arrested last year following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation.…[Continue Reading...]
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