Abba star sues Buddhist temple owner
Published: 13 Oct 10 12:15 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/29592/20101013/
Former Abba star Anni-Frid Reuss, has demanded the repayment of a 46 million kronor ($7 million) loan from a Qigong temple in southern Sweden, which has in turn claimed that the money was a donation.
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"She has filed the bankruptcy application, because she wants to bankrupt the company - it is the only way she can get her money back," said Carl-Gustaf Söder, Anni-Frid Reuss' lawyer, to The Local on Wednesday.
The firm and resort is run by Master Marcus Bongart, who founded and built up the temple and healing centre on the site of the old village school house in Jönstorp.
Bongart told The Local on Wednesday that he is "in shock" at the turn of events and argued that the money received from the former Abba star was a gesture of "commitment to the operation" and was meant as a donation and not as a loan.
"We have been friends for a long time. We have had disagreements over how to develop the temple, but that is all that has happened. The money is not there to be paid back, it is invested in the buildings, in the Buddhist temple."
But Carl-Gustaf Söder rejected Bongart's claims that the money was meant as a gift.
"The debt is included in the company accounts, so I don't understand how he can maintain that."
Bongart argued that Anni-Frid Reuss gave no warning that she was to demand repayment and furthermore claimed that the purpose of the bankruptcy application was to take over the company and turn the centre into a luxury hotel in order to earn more money.
"I have no idea of their plans," Carl-Gustaf Söder told The Local.
When asked what the future now holds for Yangtorp, which describes itself as "a magnificent oriental temple in the middle of the Scanian beech woods", Bongart replied:
"We shall have to see. Now we are in this situation. We are in shock and were not prepared. At the moment we are unable to reach agreement, so the future is uncertain."
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I am pretty happy where I am, but dear Anni-Fred - sounds like this Nigerian prince is just the person you were looking for...
A lot of people can do Qigong(which have nothing to do with buddhism) and Yoga too....they are not buddhist or hindu.
Never heard Dalai Lama do any Qigong but meditation
one must have written this :)
It's her money. She can do what she likes with it.
That being said, the 'spiritual industry' is pretty wallstreetish, huh?
Wanna know how spiritual some org or person is?.....Follow the money!
Their own religion needing only faith in God's love, offering the New Testament scipture to occupy their minds and protect them from their own follies and created by Christ's Love and Sacrafice on their behalf, they rush to give their wealth, lives and bodies to foreigners who long to exploit them.
If she turns from and learns from this fraud, it will be money well spent. I recommend she read the Lutheran Confessions and find out just how enlighteded the Swededn of the Past was.
As tadchem asks, is there a loan document, either public or private? If so, this is easy to resolve.
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