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Church fraud charges
Sunday Times, 21 September 1999
From Xenubat@primenet.com Thu Sep 23 10:30:22 BST 1999 Found at: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/09/21/timfgnfgn01001.html?999
Paris: Seven officials of the Church of Scientology went on trial on fraud charges in Marseilles amid allegations that the organisation had infiltrated the French judiciary, civil service and Government (Charles Bremner writes).
If the two men and five women are convicted of cheating 10 church members out of up to £14,000 each, the outcome will strengthen a Government drive to crack down on the Los Angeles-based organisation.
Suspicions about the church intensified with the disclosure that thousands of pages of trial evidence had disappeared from court files.
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