Fraud evangelist K.P. Yohannan’s religious-economic empire

By R. Gopalakrishnan (Janmabhumi Daily Newspaper in Malayalam)

A person and his organization has been spreading rumours like India is a cursed land and people in India are living a sinful life. Moreover that he added the women in India are doing prostitution for a living. For the last forty years this person and his organization earned thousands of crores of rupees for defaming India in front of other nations. In the name of charity and philanthropic activities he earned enormous amount of money from various foreign nations and allegedely converted more than eighty lakh Hindus to Christianity. But the major portion of the money was used for his own personal benefits and only a small portion for conversion and charity purposes thus cheating the donators. Due to this he is facing the legal action in U.S. and Canada.

The hero in this story is K.P.Yohannan the founder of Gospel for Asia in India. His hypocritical and anti-national mask has now started to slip down. The money he earned by treasonable methods is more than thousand crores. In various real estate deals he acquired more than ten thousand acres of land across different states. In different avtivities to obliterate Hinduism he is getting substantial support from the Maoists. Many Maoists leader’s children are studying in K.P.Yohannan’s different institutions. The money he acquired in the name of charity is being allegedely giving to the Maoists, as his organization is working freely in the areas where the Maoists have sovereignity.

The main reason behind all these activities is the government who gave FCRA license to Yohannan. He exploited the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act to accept donations from foreign nations. He utilized this money for conversion purposes and gave funds for constructing churches side by side in more than one lakh villages. Using the funds coming under FCRA license for conversion purpose is a criminal offense. But the UPA government was not even bothered about this issue. Yohannan bribed the political parties and attained goodwill. By auditing the financial status of the higher officials in the FCRA department will show the amount of money these people are taking as bribe from the people like Yohannan. The reports by the Intelligence bureau under the Home department regarding the foreign donations utilization were rejected time to time. This led to the rise of people like Yohannan who act more like a corporate and a parallel government.

The audit report submitted by K.P.Yohannan in the Union home ministry indicates that the fund he obtained from various foreign countries for charity was used for that purpose only. Then how much will be the total assets of Yohannan? More than ten thousand acres of land, Harrison Malayalam Plantation, Cheruvally estate and real estate deals in Delhi are all in the names of Yohannan, his children and grandchildren. Many Engineering colleges, Medical colleges, Schools, Dora Microfinance also come under Yohannan’s assets. Including all these his total assets may worth more than one lakh crore rupees. So he is responsible for showing the source of all these assets. Money obtained from foreign countries for charity purpose was used for personal benefits. This led to the cases on him in the courts of U.S.A. and Canada.

The Gospel for Asia and Believers church are the two organizations that receive the large amount of foreign fund for charity. He started the Believers church in order to demystify the enormous amount of money coming from foreign countries. Yohannan is now the main Bishop of Believers church and his children and in-laws are the assistant Bishops who control the utilization of money. India is a country that faced many calamities. A person who earned so much money in the name of the poor and needy people of India did not even spend a penny for a project for the welfare of the people.

Yohannan now has more than 20 organizations in benami names. In this 14 organizations are till this day getting foreign funds for charity purposes. All of the audit reports are fabricated. One of the incident proves this. An organization named ‘Love India Ministries’ is getting more than 150 crore rupees per year through FCRA. This organization is functioning in the compound of the Believers church of Yohannan. Nobody is aware of this organization and its records shows that it is spending 1-1.5 crore rupees for Independence and Republic day celebrations. An organization that has not even hoisted our National flag is creating fabricated records and fooling the Nation. Yohannan’s organizations altogether spend more than 15 crores of rupees for Independence and Republic day celebrations in the year 2014-15 according to the records. By bribing the FCRA officials he is betraying our country and the people.

When Yohannan’s brother was arrested for having put on hold of foreign currency worth Rs. 200 crores, Yohannan denied his brother’s connection with the Believers Church and Gospel for Asia. Thus he made a narrow escape. But Yohannan cannot deny the above mentioned facts. He has got a mafia to destroy the people who speak against him.

But now some people turn up against Yohannan’s anti-national activities. One among them is Samaritan Solomon who was once a member of Yohannan’s organization. But Solomon was admitted to a mental asylum and harassed very badly for more than six months. This incident became controversial.

In order to eradicate Hindus from India he appointed 25,000 missionaries. They were appointed for conversion purposes and now they are also aware of Yohannan’s deceiving attitude. In order to attain more foreign money Yohannan is working on creating one lakh local missionaries for conversion activities. He is in a mood of compliance with different Islamic organizations but not with the Hindus. A big lobby is working for Yohannan’s different real estate deals.

In 2001 a programme was organized by K.P.Yohannan in which a group of Hindus were converted to Budhism. This conspiracy was organized in Hyderabad. They were worried that if a large group of Hindus get converted to Christianity the Hindu organizations will create problems. So they planned to first convert the people to Budhism and later to Christianity. In order to defame Hindusim some dalit leaders were bribed and planned this programme.

Yohannan is very much aware of the fact that all his anti-national activities can be done only with the help of Congress government. So to coup the Narendra Modi government is Yohannan’s dream. P. J. Kurian will also be not against this. For all these activities he has got support of people like Thehelka Mathew Samuel. He is one of the persons who get money from Yohannan. Mathew Samuel once agreed that he got 88 lakhs for sting camera operations against the Trinamul Congress from his Malayali friends.

The people who flowed the cash for the controversial issues like the Aranmula airport which would destroy the age old Parthasarathy temple and its legacy and some people led a campaign in the Union government that the airport is for Sabarimala. The public now started to realize the real culprits behind this. Yohannan’s part in this activity is also evident.

If the foreign money obtained was used for philanthropic activities Yohannan should show the source of all his assets. As per the law, money obtained through FCRA cannot be used for any profitable business purposes. But Yohannan used this money for tempted religious conversions and invested in many highly profitable businesses. Indians are not aware of all these activities. But the countries which flowed money for Yohannan realized his deceit and started legal actions against him.

In the goal of Church planting, Yohannan declared that he constructed one lakh churches in India and appointed 25,000 missionaries for conversion purposes and his aim is to appoint one lakh missionaries in the future. The promotion, grade, salary and the number of people every missionary should convert to Christianity each month is said in the constitution of The Gospel for Asia by Yohannan.

There is a police case against Yohannan here for compelling a Muslim employee to convert to Christianity who seeked help. This incident happenend in the Cheruvally estate which Yohannan attained through illegal method.

Source : Translated from Janmabhoomi Malyalam Daily