Police believe that the diocese for many years may have tampered with membership figures who have secured them millions.
On Thursday morning trooped twelve police officers up in Oslo Catholic diocese. A dozen people are questioned, and it was seized several documents and computers.
Now the diocese, Bishop Bernt Eidsvig & Administration charged with aggravated fraud.
VG has been in contact with Eidsvig who do not want to give a comment:
– I’m not going to comment on the indictment or this matter as long as it is with the police, says he told VG.
Massively member cheating
In a number of cases have Dagbladet revealed medlemsrot church.
Police are now underway with the investigation, and Friday informs police prosecutor Kristin Rusdal that they have started to go through seized documents.
– The investigation will show how the concrete has gained several members who have not joined itself, but it should be talking about the use of the Phone or anything similar, said Rusdal VG.
It all started with that Communication Manager Agnieszka Bryn Humanist Association, found that she was registered as a member of the Catholic Church in Norway. The matter was discussed in Dagbladet.
The church had not at that time a concrete answer on why Bryn were enrolled without their will, but admitted that it could apply to more.
Bryn case was the start of a long series of cases referred the extensive member mess. As recently as yesterday wrote VG Oslo Buddhists who accuse the church to snikinnmelde Buddhists in their Christian congregation.
67,000 people
In an e-mail to the County, and Dagbladet has learned from an employee Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo, states that “more than 67,000 people have been added to our index of five people who we all know in greater or lesser degree has used the telephone directory as one of the sources “.
According to the newspaper Eidsvig in 2012 been made aware of the church’s membership registrations, without it being done something.
The church was, by order of the county, have to rectify the member lists. It was therefore sent out letters to about 79,000 people who are registered in the period 2010-2014. The many revelations ended with the County Governor of Oslo and Akershus Newsletter Roman Catholicism in Norway for membership cheating, so Our Country publicized Wednesday.
– As the case has evolved, with all the information we put on, we thought it was appropriate to report this now, said Merethe Helstad, head of the legal department at County Governor of Oslo and Akershus the newspaper.
Phone
The church explained long membership with the increasing immigration from Catholic countries, but eventually admitted that they had adopted some “shortcuts.” Asked by Dagbladet on how the data collection was black bishop following:
– Specifically I do not know. It is not I who have done this. But as I understand it, they are found in available public records, such as telephone directory.
After the newspaper experience should the Catholic Church have found Catholic name in the telephone directory, searched up person your number in the National Register and reported them.
– The question is whether you have an intention, I think, to register people who are not Catholics. We have never tried it. We registered persons who are not, it is well no doubt. But I do not think that it is a clean registry anywhere in any denomination, without any apology, said Eidsvig.
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