Biggest Charity Fraud in Panama Papers

[Apprentice]

https://medium.com/@akber/the-mirza-cult-business-offshore-accounts-1b0e11b901b1#.os388275t
So, I have been called names for calling the Qadiani branch of the Ahmadiyya religion as a cult run by the Mirza Family for their personal financial gain.

In 2010, we exposed their secret web of companies and charities and how they were funneling away money in property investments. The Charities Commission looked the other way. We showed how Mirza Masroor Ahmad(below) re-organized the corporate structure in 2003 to be under the control of his trusted family and friends, while not having his own name on a single organization.

Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Qadiani ‘Caliph’
We said then that when the cult implodes, the family may run away with their property investments. The time may have come for them to hide their wealth even further. And this wealth is not through business. It is by forcing poor people — benefits recipients — to cough up 5–10% of their income on penalty of ostracization. Just as the Internet has laid bare the theological fraud of the Mirza family, today it lays bare the rest of their secret web of offshore companies and accounts due to the Panama papers.

Flow of Money
Money flows as charitable donations from ‘have’ countries like U.S.,. Canada, Pakistan, Germany and U.K. into AMJ International from where it is distributed into dubious projects around the world. The accounting in each country is kept up to date, but money gets lost in international transactions.

The actual work of the organization is carried out through just one charity — Al-Shirkatul-Islamiyyah, and curiously, its income and expenses almost balance every year.

Since Mirza Masroor Ahmad came to power, he has focused on investing in properties and totally unrelated to the goals of the organization. We see from the Panama Papers that the businesses are involved mostly in property investment.

TJ Holdings
In 2010, we wondered who had a mortgage on an Ahmadiyya property on Deer Park Drive; the only substantial building that is not a place of worship and the mortgage of which is always renewed after a few years. The company was known as T.J. Holdings and nothing was known of it. It is now located in the Panama Papers:

T.J.HOLDINGS S.A.,T.J.HOLDINGS S.A.,,PMA,Panama,,A B ARSHAD
Abul Baqi Arshad
This person is about 81 years old, a friend and confidant of Mirza Masroor Ahmad, and the current and former director of up to 23 companies in their visible charities’ web in the U.K. Here are some of his other offshore companies revealed in the Panama Papers Leak, some of which replaced others, and almost all since 2003, when his friend took reigns of the cult:

Lombard Invest LimitedJAFAH ENTERPRISES INC.MAHA INTERNATIONAL INCASLAM CORPORATION S.A.ASIFA HOLDINGS S.A. (named after wife of Mirza Tahir Ahmad)NUSRAT INVESTMENTS INC. (named after great-grandmother of Mirza Masroor Ahmad)QADIR ENTERPRISES INC.FAZAL ENTERPRISES INC.SLAMAT HOLDINGS S.A.SIND HOLDINGS S.A.ALHAMAD HOLDINGS S.A.CASCA HOLDINGS S.A.SUMMIT PROPERTIES INC.SALAMAT ENTERPRISES INC.BILAL INVESTMENTS INC.
Other Companies and Possible Structure
There are other companies with links directly to the Qadiani Ahmadiyya town of Chanab Nagar in Pakistan but we are still researching the ownership links which will eventually be found to be traced to the Mirza Family.

It appears that the offshore companies are organized as trust funds along the family branches and provide income to various parts of the vast Mirza family — not unlike a royal family renowned for idleness and extravagance.

What Story and Two Questions?
It is unclear how the Mirza Family and their minions will spin this revelation and how they will dupe their followers into giving them even more money.

Question 1: What is the need to hide money in so many offshore companies? Question 2: Where did the money come from and who controls it?

For those shrill Qadiani Ahmadiyya bloggers always shrieking at ‘mullahs’, here is your mullah for you. Illiterate, unaware of theology, can barely speak in public, full of gaffes and hoarding your money for his family.

And yet, to you, he is God’s representative on earth. I actually feel so sorry for you and wish you would wake up to the exploitation. If there was any time to do so, this is it.

 

[Ehsan]

https://medium.com/@RabwahTimes/fal...raud-in-panama-papers-75b9a3f230ec#.fryiuh3ct

False Story: Biggest Charity Fraud in Panama Papers


First of all, the article in question is written by Akber Chaudry, a full-time paid up anti-Ahmadi fanatic who has devoted his professional career to attacking Ahmadiyya Muslims. He has links to and supports the organisation ‘Khatme Nabuwwat’, whose branch in Pakistan is active in the killing of Ahmadis and in fact its UK branch was recently reported by the BBC to havepublished and distributed leaflets calling for the faith-based murder of Ahmadis — Chaudry even gave the BBC an interview at the time to defend these atrocities.

Nevertheless, taking his analysis of Ahmadiyya as gospel is exactly like going to professional Islamophobes such as Ayan Hirsi Ali to learn about Islam: you are relying on one of the most biased sources possible.

With that brief introduction to the author, let us turn to the content.The article begins as it intends to continue, by making a number of unsupported claims. It does however mention that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is registered with the Charity Commission in the UK (and is also registered with similar public organisations in other countries in which it operates).The Charity Commission (and similar bodies in other countries) completes an independent audit of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community annually which is passed with flying colours and available publicly. This is as opposed to other charities belonging to certain other sects which are regularly flagged by the Charity Commission. Moreover, unfortunately Mr Chaudry is prone to making statements which are not truthful. For example in his article he writes:

And this wealth is not through business. It is by forcing poor people … to cough up 5–10% of their income (Chaudry’s false article)
This is not the case. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community forbids taking money off those who are suffering in poverty, as the Khalifa Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has clearly taught:

Officials should not have asked this [poor] person for contributions, and should have in fact helped him [financially]…Management should be thoughtful about such people and should not force people to pay. Sometimes finance secretaries pursue people [and should not do so in these cases]. Contributions should be taken in accordance with people’s situations. (Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Friday Sermon 7 November 2014)
Later Chaudry writes:

Money flows as charitable donations from ‘have’ countries like U.S.,. Canada, Pakistan, Germany and U.K. into AMJ International from where it is distributed into dubious projects around the world. (Chaudry’s false article)
Those ‘dubious’ projects include the building and maintenance of16,000 mosquesworldwide, the publication of the Quran with translation in over 70 languages, the running of several multi-languageglobal free-to-air and commercial-free TV channels, the running of numerous websites, radio stations and mobile apps. The building and staffing of over 600 charitable schools and 40 hospitals in some of the poorest parts of the world. The building of thousands of water pumps, solar panels and other facilities in disadvantaged parts of Africa and Asia and so on and so forth. I have personally visited Ahmadiyya mosques on in numerous countries across four continents including Africa and Asia and can bear testimony to the astonishing scale of charitable work going on. Chaudry continues with absurd statements such as:

Al-Shirkatul-Islamiyyah, and curiously, its income and expenses almost balance every year (Chaudry)
ASI is based in London. Those Ahmadis who visit London are regularly given tours of its offices. This is no big secret and only those who are prone to undue suspicion could find anything other than signs of good management in the fact its income and expenses balance each year — a bigger crime or sign of fraud would be if the community was (1) hoarding donations which went unspent with income exceeding expenses or (2) overspending beyond its means with expenses exceeding income. Balanced sheets — which are publicly available with the UK Charity Commission — being presented as a crime is frankly absurd and demonstrates only Chaudry straining credibility for the sake of his own agenda. Regrettably, the author digs himself even deeper in the sentences that follow:

Since Mirza Masroor Ahmad came to power, he has focused on investing in properties and totally unrelated to the goals of the organization (Chaudry)
And what are these properties whose ‘unrelated’ purposes Chaudry fails to explain or give a single example of? Well in 2011 a total of 419 of them were mosques. Yes, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community built or purchased 419 mosques worldwide in 2011. Things had slowed down a little by 2013 when we only managed 394 mosques. Maybe Chaudry thinks a religious organisation building mosques is ‘unrelated’ as perhaps he does not value salat, but clearly Ahmadis around the world disagree.Now we come to the Panama Leak. Chaudry begins by claiming Abul Baqi Arshad is a close friend of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. Once again he seems to be making up facts out of thin air. Prior to 2003, there is no evidence to show any particular relationship between the Khalifa and Baqi. They lived and worked on separate continents. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad became Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community that year and Baqi — who had served the community for decades previously — was allowed to continue doing so. Perhaps Mr Chaudry could have objected if the Khalifa had replaced Baqi with a relative or at least someone he actually knew, but the Khalifa allowing a stranger to continue in his various roles hardly seems worth commenting on, unless you live in the fantasy world of Mr Chaudry.There is another layer of dishonesty in Chaudry’s ‘revelations’. He claims that ‘Nusrat Holdings’ is named after Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad’s grandmother. In fact, as Mr Chaudry must surely be aware, there is a well known Ahmadiyya charity known as the ‘Nusrat Jehan Scheme’. It has existed for decades, most practicising Ahmadis will be familiar with it and many of the charitable schools and hospitals built by the scheme are named ‘Nusrat Jehan Academy’ and so on and so forth. Perhaps we will extend the benefit of the doubt to Mr Chaudry and assume he was ignorant of this (well known) information rather than simply telling lies.And the Nusrat Jehan Scheme charity having its account named after, er, the charity itself appears to be the only ‘evidence’ Mr Chaudry has of the corruption he alleges among the Khalifa or his family. And as I have just explained above, this evidence is nonsensical. In fact, Ahmadis will find these allegations even more loony given the Khalifa, now in his position for twelve years, lives in a small one bedroom flat above the Fazal Mosque in London. Hundreds of thousands of Ahmadis have visited him there and met him personally in his small office. This is someone who is the head of a religious organisation whose members donate tens of millions a year in the UK alone, not to mention hundreds of millions more worldwide. If he is so corrupt, why have he and his wife spent the last twelve years living in a one bedroom apartment, wearing a cheap white shalwar kameez (Asian shirt) and working from a small office by a mosque? Clearly, far from being a corrupt horder of money, the Khalifa is a humble and honest man of great integrity and simple means.As far as the Panama Accounts are concerned, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is persecuted in Pakistan. Its mosques and properties are regularly seized by the government who then hand them over to more favoured sects. In the Ahmadiyya town of Chenab Nagar (Rabwah) to which Chaudry refers,property was seized from Ahmadis by the government recently and then sold at a profit, with the proviso that those who buy the property must sign to confirm that they are not Ahmadis and will never ever sell or return the land to Ahmadis. Given these circumstances it is hardly surprising the Ahmadis of Pakistan choose to keep their assets offshore. It is perfectly legal for them to do so and there is no evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever.

 

[RazorMC]

Most of the wealthy individuals are involved in some sort of scam or another, regardless of their religion, culture or race.

What is shrewd business for one is fraud for another.