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| − | A CRA audit for the fiscal period of 2008-2009 uncovered<ref>https://www.canadiancharitylaw.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Colel-Chabad-Lubavitch-Foundation-of-Israel-Notice-of-Intention-to-Revoke-Redacted.pdf</ref> that Colel Chabad had been selling official donation receipts to donors, for 10% to 20% of their receipted value. When it comes to filing one’s personal taxes, these receipts, it is important to note, have a value of upwards of 50% or more of the donated principle, meaning that Canadian charities actually create wealth. One of Colel Chabad’s clients, Dr. [[Lorne Wayne Sokol]], gained notoriety<ref>https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/toronto-doctor-who-pleaded-guilty-to-improper-billing-facing-disciplinary-charges</ref> for laundering money he had obtained by allegedly defrauding the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, through Colel Chabad. Sokol had incorporated a company in Belize, the [[Moshe Shmuel Deitsch Company]], named for Colel Chabad’s self-claimed Israeli intermediary, [[Moshe Deutsch]].<ref>https://decisions.fca-caf.gc.ca/fca-caf/decisions/en/item/520973/index.do?q=COLEL+CHABAD+LUBAVITCH+FOUNDATION+OF+ISRAEL</ref> | + | :A CRA audit for the fiscal period of 2008-2009 uncovered<ref>https://www.canadiancharitylaw.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Colel-Chabad-Lubavitch-Foundation-of-Israel-Notice-of-Intention-to-Revoke-Redacted.pdf</ref> that Colel Chabad had been selling official donation receipts to donors, for 10% to 20% of their receipted value. When it comes to filing one’s personal taxes, these receipts, it is important to note, have a value of upwards of 50% or more of the donated principle, meaning that Canadian charities actually create wealth. One of Colel Chabad’s clients, Dr. [[Lorne Wayne Sokol]], gained notoriety<ref>https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/toronto-doctor-who-pleaded-guilty-to-improper-billing-facing-disciplinary-charges</ref> for laundering money he had obtained by allegedly defrauding the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, through Colel Chabad. Sokol had incorporated a company in Belize, the [[Moshe Shmuel Deitsch Company]], named for Colel Chabad’s self-claimed Israeli intermediary, [[Moshe Deutsch]].<ref>https://decisions.fca-caf.gc.ca/fca-caf/decisions/en/item/520973/index.do?q=COLEL+CHABAD+LUBAVITCH+FOUNDATION+OF+ISRAEL</ref> |
| − | Through the Belizean company, Sokol (and potentially others) was subsequently repaid by Colel Chabad for between 80% to 90% of the principal they had donated to the charity. Colel Chabad appears to have netted 10% to 20% off the principle, while Sokol and other unnamed participants netted the value of a tax credit while recouping 80% to 90% of their Belize-laundered principle, meaning a net profit for donors ballparked at 130-140%. | + | :Through the Belizean company, Sokol (and potentially others) was subsequently repaid by Colel Chabad for between 80% to 90% of the principal they had donated to the charity. Colel Chabad appears to have netted 10% to 20% off the principle, while Sokol and other unnamed participants netted the value of a tax credit while recouping 80% to 90% of their Belize-laundered principle, meaning a net profit for donors ballparked at 130-140%. |
| − | Colel Chabad’s president, [[Abraham Neuwirth]], would plead ignorance to the scheme. Colel Chabad’s secretary [[Zalman Zirkind]], along with his brothers, however, were involved in a wider, international, narco-trafficking/money laundering scheme.<ref>https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-drug-money-courier-claimed-cash-was-for-jews-fearing-holocaust</ref> In 2021, Zalman would be sentenced to 84 months’ imprisonment by a United States District Court for conspiracy to commit money laundering.<ref>https://www.innercitypress.com/sdny23ccotezalmundzirkindicp011521.html</ref> Zirkind’s association with Colel Chabad, it should be noted, far outlived the charity’s exposure as a potential money laundering operation; he was listed as Colel Chabad’s secretary between 2000 until at least 2015, at which point the charity simply ceased updating its Board of Directors filings with the CRA.<ref>https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/a-look-at-five-pro-israel-organizations-that-lost-charitable-status-in-canada-and-the-mega-donors-who-funded-them/</ref> | + | :Colel Chabad’s president, [[Abraham Neuwirth]], would plead ignorance to the scheme. Colel Chabad’s secretary [[Zalman Zirkind]], along with his brothers, however, were involved in a wider, international, narco-trafficking/money laundering scheme.<ref>https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-drug-money-courier-claimed-cash-was-for-jews-fearing-holocaust</ref> In 2021, Zalman would be sentenced to 84 months’ imprisonment by a United States District Court for conspiracy to commit money laundering.<ref>https://www.innercitypress.com/sdny23ccotezalmundzirkindicp011521.html</ref> Zirkind’s association with Colel Chabad, it should be noted, far outlived the charity’s exposure as a potential money laundering operation; he was listed as Colel Chabad’s secretary between 2000 until at least 2015, at which point the charity simply ceased updating its Board of Directors filings with the CRA.<ref>https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/a-look-at-five-pro-israel-organizations-that-lost-charitable-status-in-canada-and-the-mega-donors-who-funded-them/</ref> |
Revision as of 09:54, 5 June 2026
- A CRA audit for the fiscal period of 2008-2009 uncovered[1] that Colel Chabad had been selling official donation receipts to donors, for 10% to 20% of their receipted value. When it comes to filing one’s personal taxes, these receipts, it is important to note, have a value of upwards of 50% or more of the donated principle, meaning that Canadian charities actually create wealth. One of Colel Chabad’s clients, Dr. Lorne Wayne Sokol, gained notoriety[2] for laundering money he had obtained by allegedly defrauding the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, through Colel Chabad. Sokol had incorporated a company in Belize, the Moshe Shmuel Deitsch Company, named for Colel Chabad’s self-claimed Israeli intermediary, Moshe Deutsch.[3]
- Through the Belizean company, Sokol (and potentially others) was subsequently repaid by Colel Chabad for between 80% to 90% of the principal they had donated to the charity. Colel Chabad appears to have netted 10% to 20% off the principle, while Sokol and other unnamed participants netted the value of a tax credit while recouping 80% to 90% of their Belize-laundered principle, meaning a net profit for donors ballparked at 130-140%.
- Colel Chabad’s president, Abraham Neuwirth, would plead ignorance to the scheme. Colel Chabad’s secretary Zalman Zirkind, along with his brothers, however, were involved in a wider, international, narco-trafficking/money laundering scheme.[4] In 2021, Zalman would be sentenced to 84 months’ imprisonment by a United States District Court for conspiracy to commit money laundering.[5] Zirkind’s association with Colel Chabad, it should be noted, far outlived the charity’s exposure as a potential money laundering operation; he was listed as Colel Chabad’s secretary between 2000 until at least 2015, at which point the charity simply ceased updating its Board of Directors filings with the CRA.[6]
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Notes
- ↑ https://www.canadiancharitylaw.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Colel-Chabad-Lubavitch-Foundation-of-Israel-Notice-of-Intention-to-Revoke-Redacted.pdf
- ↑ https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/toronto-doctor-who-pleaded-guilty-to-improper-billing-facing-disciplinary-charges
- ↑ https://decisions.fca-caf.gc.ca/fca-caf/decisions/en/item/520973/index.do?q=COLEL+CHABAD+LUBAVITCH+FOUNDATION+OF+ISRAEL
- ↑ https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-drug-money-courier-claimed-cash-was-for-jews-fearing-holocaust
- ↑ https://www.innercitypress.com/sdny23ccotezalmundzirkindicp011521.html
- ↑ https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/a-look-at-five-pro-israel-organizations-that-lost-charitable-status-in-canada-and-the-mega-donors-who-funded-them/