The temple. A priest of the diocese of Kharkiv told how the stolen money of the parishioners
In the Kharkiv region, the priests created a “charity Fund” for the construction of the temple, under cover of which plunder the many donations of the faithful, says the plot of the program “Groshi”.
The pastoral career of his father Sergei began in 2000 with a unusual arrival in the village Legkovogo the Kharkiv region, where the Church was a charitable Foundation established specifically for the construction of the temple, however, according to the priest, the funds allocated for construction, “deribanyat” between their, and only a small proportion went to the temple.
“The scheme consisted primarily in the fact that we give 100% money, 70% is the people who give, and only 30% on the community,” he said.
His father, Sergei was invited to head a corruption Fund, but he learned about double-entry bookkeeping, refused.
“I immediately offered, I understand it was a trial step to the test. Offered about 5 thousand hryvnias”, – he said and added that after refusing to mess with the cassock in Church corruption, he was forced to wander in different parishes.
However, the acting Director of the Foundation, father Vladimir, who denied the accusations of his colleague, explaining that ever since he came in 2005, the Fund is an open account in “Sberbank”, and the parishioners are only by appointment.
In addition, father Sergei admitted that he even openly threatened, in particular, the predecessor of Metropolitan Onufry father Nicodemus “told me word for word: “Pick the arrival and will take you close. You need to leave now, or we’ll come get you”.
“He told me the following: what you have just told me shut up… don’t tell Anyone, I don’t bless to disclose the matter. And those who disagree with us, he let us out,” said the man.
According to father Sergei, Metropolitan Onufry “protected” corruption schemes, and managed to purchase a luxury property for approximately $ 7 million.
“There are in the diocese clearly the “feudal system”. All this the top, the Metropolitan of Kharkov and Bogodukhov Onufry, then the regional Dean and the regional Dean and the Secretary is essential,” he said.
In addition, the source in the Archdiocese announced that Onuphrius there are also two foreign currency accounts for millions of dollars in Kharkiv branches of two banks – German and Russian, working as an active Deposit.
The journalists of “Pennies” I tried to get a comment from Metropolitan Onufry on charitable Fund and fortunes, but it is more than a month have ignored all requests and didn’t appear on the service in the temples. However, when the meeting finally took place, the Metropolitan did not want to communicate, and his guards simply dragged from the Lord of the journalist.
The most interesting thing about this story was that a few days before the broadcast, the father of Sergei suddenly sent a letter to the editor that “deliberately lied on camera”.