A 3rd Samoan church has been implicated in promotion of the OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
Beforehand the Samoan Seventh Day Adventist Church and Worship Middle Christian Church got here below hearth for funneling their congregations into OneCoin.
Each church buildings have been additionally implicated in cash laundering, following Samoa’s ban on OneCoin funding.
Now the Samoa Worship Middle in New Zealand can also be below investigation.
The Division of Inner Affairs confirmed to Radio New Zealand that it was investigating the Samoa Worship Middle in South Auckland.
It mentioned as a part of this it had gathered “data on OneCoin” however that this was not the direct focus of the investigation.
The division made the identical assertion in relation to the Samoan Impartial Seventh Day Adventist Church (SISDAC) in June.
Investigating OneCoin itself is pointless, as OneCoin has no bodily operations in New Zealand.
Cash laundering for OneCoin seems to have been rife inside the Samoan church group in New Zealand. The issue bought so dangerous in Samoa itself that the Prime Minister needed to urge folks to not make investments.
Samoan authorities are additionally investigating SISDAC for a similar alleged crimes.
Authorities have estimated Samoan OneCoin traders collectively misplaced “millons of {dollars}”.
I’ve a hunch that have been they to comply with the cash, a big share of that most likely wound up in some Samoan church chief’s pockets.
Whether or not something formally comes of the investigations stays to be seen. Keep tuned…
Replace seventeenth February 2021 – Charities Service’s investigation into the Samoan Impartial Seventh Day Adventist Church has confirmed OneCoin associated fraud.
SISDAC has consequently been struck off New Zealand’s Charities Register.