The following is via the CBC:
Members of Lev Tahor are believed to have falsified some passports, marriage licences and birth certificates, according to an affidavit filed by Quebec provincial police to obtain a search warrant.
The document, called an Information to Obtain, is a written testimony that sets out allegations to a judge to get a search warrant. The sworn document was signed by Sgt. Normand Dion of the Sûreté du Québec.
CBC/Radio-Canada obtained a copy of the extensive document pertaining to Lev Tahor, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect that in November 2013 fled Quebec for Chatham, Ont. to evade a youth protection order and allegations of child abuse.
Some of the documents left behind by the Lev Tahor families as they hastily moved to Ontario were seized by SQ investigators.
The Sûreté du Québec affidavit also details how the suspicion of falsified documents was the crux of the search warrant executed by Quebec’s provincial police in Chatham, Ont. on Jan. 29, 2014.
The SQ document of which CBC/Radio-Canada obtained a copy is dated Jan. 28 — the day before the search was conducted in Chatham.
None of the allegations against Lev Tahor made in this affidavit have been tested in court, and no member of Lev Tahor has been charged in connection to them.
The SQ document lists items seized by the police during the searches conducted in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Que., the home of the Lev Tahor community before it fled to Chatham.
Investigators seized two laptops, an external hard drive, various banking documents belonging to a company owned by Lev Tahor members, credit cards, marriage licences from Missouri, as well as Revenu Québec and Immigration Canada documents.
Investigators also found several bottles of medication, namely ibuprofen, antibiotics, medication to treat seizure disorders and an antipsychotic.
There have been allegations that Lev Tahor controlled children in the sect with medication.
A CD containing other documents that was handed to the SQ in the spring of 2012. The CD had been given to a Quebec rabbi by a former member of Lev Tahor.
The SQ in its affidavit alleged the CD contained documents primarily dating from 2010 and 2011, including a forged passport, power-of-attorney documents asserting control over members of Lev Tahor in case of incapacity, notarized real-estate sale documents and at least one other contract.
The SQ document alleged that most of the materials on the CD were tied to Mayer Rosner, one of the high-ranking members of Lev Tahor described by provincial police as leader Shlomo Helbrans’s right-hand man.
Offices seized various letters and documents, as well as hospital and health care cards, in the search on Jan. 29.
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This is an old-fashioned persecution of Jews by the famously anti-semitic Quebeci authorities. The same Quebeci government is trying to shut down mainstream Orthodox yeshivas because they don’t teach sex education and evolution and force frum yiddish children into public school.
You obviously know nothing about this disgusting cult and their practices.
The above two posts are a clear example of what happens when YWN reports on matters of no practical significance such as this. Let us know about what’s going on in the world of politics, Israel, economy etc. as you have been doing very well until now. When it comes, however, to posting deragatory reports (true or otherwise) about other Jews, you have thier Lashon Hora on your hands. And frankly, it’s not even good. Otherwise, keep it up, and thanks!
Lev Tahor, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect This statement is false. Lev Tahor is anything but orthodox. For that matter, they are anything but Tahor. I hereby rename them “Lev Tameh”.
Despite their falsified documents, haShem will get to to the true identities of each one of them in 13 days on R’H.
This is a blood libel against these sweet Jews by sworn enemies of Judaism assisted by irreligious zealots.
First whether this ‘chevre’ or cult needs major help is moot
Those who has interacted with them,claim there is real basis to the persecution being foisted from insidious sources
Lev Tahor Group Leaves Guatemalan Town After Threats
Monday September 1, 2014 2:53 PM
from Rabbi Avraham Goldstein
September 1, 2014
The report is incomplete! The people of the town threaten to kill them if they did not leave. What is alarming was that it was an official legal expulsion. They lived well there UNTIL people from Canada and Israel came to the town to discredit them. They told them that they were fake Jews that came to cause trouble and were escaping the law because of immoral behavior……The villagers panicked and went to the extreme to expel them.
I hope people see what is really happening to these people :(!
First they came for the Lev Tahor, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not Lev Tahor.
Then they came for the Quebec chassidic school system , and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Quebec chassid .
Then they came for the Belgian charedi school system, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Belgian charedi.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.