Reply to Daily Mail, April 2, 2016

For the attention of Martin Clarke, Publisher

In the article titled “Yoga guru who tried to have sex with 1,000 virgins so he could reach ‘a higher spiritual level’ is arrested in Paris after spending years on the run for sleeping with an underage girl”, signed by Mailonline Reporter, which appeared on www.dailymail.co.uk on 4th March 2016 there were a number of obvious untruths that seriously damage the image of Mr. Gregorian Bivolaru. The damage to the image of Gregorian Bivolaru is even greater as that article was translated into many languages and published in various foreign publications.
Therefore, the spokesperson for MISA, Costică Cojocaru, requests that you publish the following reply, in the same conditions in which the article was published.

“Mr. Gregorian Bivolaru, dissident and political refugee with asylum in Sweden, was arrested by French police on 26th February 2016 in Paris. His case is being monitored by many human rights organisations, due to the continual abuse that he has been subjected to by the Romanian authorities for over 30 years.

Here are some of the vicious persecutions, flagrant abuses and repeated violations of human rights which have been perpetrated against Gregorian Bivolaru by the Romanian state institutions. Gregorian Bivolaru was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for the offence of sex with a minor, in the situation in which Madalina Dumitru, the alleged victim, firmly denied, several times, and still denies these allegations. Furthermore, she also exposes serious abuse of blackmail, being beaten and threatened with imprisonment she was subjected to by prosecutors in order to be forced into falsely signing a statement that would incriminate Gregorian Bivolaru, a statement that was contested the following day after being given. In addition, although Gregorian Bivolaru was acquitted on this accusation and declared innocent by two courts of appeal; The High Court of Cassation and Justice in Romania illegally and abusively annulled these two decisions of acquittal. Following a clearly illegal trial they irrevocably condemned him to an unfair and excessive punishment in relation to the offence that he was unjustly accused of.

The media campaign to discredit Gregorian Bivolaru and the MISA yoga school has been conducted in Romania for the best part of 20 years and carried out under political orders was one of the reasons that at the end of 2005 the Supreme Court of Sweden granted Mr. Gregorian Bivolaru political asylum and came to the conclusion that if Gregorian Bivolaru was extradited to Romania he would not receive a fair trial.

The article published by The Daily Mail on 4th March 2016 “Yoga guru who tried to have sex with 1,000 virgins so he could reach ‘a higher spiritual level’ is arrested in Paris after spending years on the run for sleeping with an underage girl”, signed by Mailonline Reporter, is unfortunately written in the same manipulative way to which yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru has been subjected to by many ill-intentioned press articles, which were poorly researched and, not surprisingly, anonymous.

The Daily Mail repeats in this article some information that is clearly sensational, full of the lies and fantasy that are endlessly presented by the defamatory Romanian press. The way in which this article is written is clearly manipulative and tendentious, without any journalistic ethics that would allow the accused, in this case unfairly, to present their own point of view.

An example of the disinformation in this article is the case of the one presented as a victim of Gregorian Bivolaru, Agnes Arabela Marques. Initially she posed as a victim under the pretence of receiving a huge compensation; however, the court found that her accusations, the situation she presented to the press, who accepted all of her scandalous and venomous lies without any checks, were unfounded. At the court more evidence was subsequently presented that completely contradicted all her lies. If the anonymous reporter has conducted even the minimum of research they would have discovered that Agnes Arabela is a liar, but then the article would no longer have such a sensational title.

Agnes Arabela completely invented these extravagant fantasies connected to sex with a 1000 virgins to disparage Gregorian Bivolaru and attribute these things to him. Another lie that was taken from the media campaign of disinformation in Romania is connected to group sex. This completely false assertion has never been proven, but even so it has been repeated again and again over many years, most likely for the simple reason that scandal sells more newspapers.

The yogi meditation in a YANG spiral that is tendentiously presented as a bizarre ritual is actually a registered trademark of MISA. The Global Consciousness Project in 2003 even certified, scientifically and independently, all the beneficial effects, some of them extraordinary for the planetary, energetic ambiance that this type of meditation can trigger (http://teilhard.global-mind.org/papers/GCPGlobalHarmonyBW.pdf).

Although Romania was never able, as concluded by the Supreme Court of Sweden, to respect the right of Gregorian Bivolaru to a fair trial, we are full of hope that in France, where Gregorian Bivolaru is now, justice will prevail and truth will be known in the end.”

We also remind you in closing that there will never exist a press release that could be superior to the truth and that the responsibilities of a free press in a free country are paramount. These responsibilities encompass such things as to peel away at the evidence; accumulate facts; ask questions; cultivate sources; look at documents; talk to people who were involved; win trust; ignore threats; verify information; report accurately – this is as good an illustration as you could have for the importance of a free press.

Therefore, in the name of truth that should be a beacon for the publications you run, we hope that you will not ignore the truth regarding these aspects referring to these aspects you presented in the published article and we respectfully request, in the name of truth, the urgent publication of this reply.

With respect
Costică Cojocaru
MISA Spokesperson
biroudepresa_misa@yahoo.com

yogaesoteric
April 2, 2016

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