{"id":68549,"date":"2024-06-08T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T11:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/it-called-itself-a-yoga-school-prosecutors-say-it-was-a-sex-cult\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T11:06:04","slug":"it-called-itself-a-yoga-school-prosecutors-say-it-was-a-sex-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/it-called-itself-a-yoga-school-prosecutors-say-it-was-a-sex-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"It Called Itself a Yoga School. Prosecutors Say It Was a Sex Cult."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2023\/10\/30\/multimedia\/00argentina-sexcult-01-mpzw\/00argentina-sexcult-01-mpzw-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"It Called Itself a Yoga School. Prosecutors Say It Was a Sex Cult.\" title=\"It Called Itself a Yoga School. Prosecutors Say It Was a Sex Cult.\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Juan Percowicz was an accountant with an unusual side hobby: teaching self-help classes around Buenos Aires with a heavy dose of ancient philosophy and New Age spiritualism. He was a hit and, with donations from his followers, he built an organization known as Buenos Aires Yoga School, or BAYS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For more than 30 years, he ran the school, which promised spiritual salvation through lectures and self-help classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But now, Mr. Percowicz, 85, and more than a dozen BAYS members are facing criminal charges, accused of running a \u201csex cult,\u201d not a yoga school, that coerced some of its female members into prostitution and laundered the profits in real estate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prosecutors say the organization exploited and drugged some of its female members, forcing them to sell their bodies and generating hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly from clients in Argentina and the United States. BAYS also ran an illicit clinic where some members were administered drugs to induce prolonged sleep, sometimes as a form of punishment, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCults exist here, but we\u2019ve never seen one that operated at this level,\u201d said Ricardo Juri, the investigator who oversaw police raids on BAYS properties in August 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The accusations against BAYS shocked Argentina, yet for many people, they also felt eerily familiar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the 1990s, Mr. Percowicz and his school first gained notoriety after an Argentine family accused the organization of brainwashing their daughter. During the investigation, some former members talked of being forced to work as \u201cslaves\u201d and said the school promoted prostitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But that original case stalled in the courts. Argentina did not yet have laws on human trafficking or money laundering, according to investigators. The country\u2019s justice system was still being overhauled after the end of the military dictatorship more than a decade earlier in which tens of thousands of people were killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A 1999 State Department report said Argentina\u2019s judiciary was \u201champered by inordinate delays, procedural logjams, changes of judges, inadequate administrative support and incompetence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There also remained a lingering distrust of government and the judicial system \u2014 and defenders of BAYS tapped into that, including Adolfo P\u00e9rez Esquivel, an Argentine Nobel Peace Prize winner, and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, whose children had been \u201cdisappeared\u201d by the authoritarian regime. They accused the Argentine judiciary of corruption and human rights violations connected to the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Eventually, the case against BAYS was dropped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, with updated laws, prosecutors are again targeting Mr. Percowicz and his followers in a new investigation examining BAYS operations dating back to 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe people are the same, the decisions are the same, the activities are similar, but there are two very important laws now with big penalties that prohibit the core activities these people were doing,\u201d said Ariel Lijo, a judge who oversaw the initial stages of the case. Mr. Lijo was nominated for Argentina\u2019s Supreme Court in March by President Javier Milei.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the 2022 raids on BAYS, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiscales.gob.ar\/trata\/secta-de-yoga-de-villa-crespo-el-secuestro-de-los-bienes-y-las-sumas-millonarias-incautadas-en-los-allanamientos\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">investigators said they found more than $1 million in cash<\/a>, five bars of gold, stashes of pornographic films, checkbooks from American banks and dossiers on wealthy individuals, including some who live in the United States. American authorities have cooperated in the investigation, according to Argentine investigators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The U.S. Justice Department declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prosecutors say that the seven women named as victims were brought to BAYS by their parents when they were minors, or that they joined as young women and were eventually forced into prostitution. But the women in the case have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eldiarioar.com\/sociedad\/canta-declararon-alumnas-escuela-yoga-percibio-victima_1_9565092.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">denied<\/a> ever having sex in exchange for money, or being victims of any crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Defense lawyers for Mr. Percowicz and current members of BAYS have denied all charges, arguing that no one in the organization was exploited. Instead, they say that the accusers \u2014 whose identities are protected in the case \u2014 want revenge on the organization for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a case of human trafficking without victims of trafficking,\u201d said Jorge Daniel Pirozzo, a lawyer who represents Mr. Percowicz and five other BAYS members. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t been proven that anybody has been sexually exploited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Percowicz and BAYS members declined interview requests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While prostitution in Argentina is not illegal, promoting or <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oas.org\/dil\/esp\/Codigo_Penal_Delitos_contra_la_Integridad_Sexual_Argentina.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">economically exploiting<\/a> the practice of prostitution using deception, abuse or intimidation is. The prosecutors say they intend to show that the victims do not recognize themselves as such because Mr. Percowicz and his allies psychologically manipulated the women over years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As both sides prepare their arguments, the organization continues to have prominent allies, including in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In October 2022, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. sent an email to Mr. Lijo, the judge, which was reviewed by The New York Times. The message said that BAYS members were \u201cvictims of brutal and egregious human rights violations by elements of the Argentine legal system.\u201d It was unclear why Mr. Jackson, 82, sent the email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He did not respond to multiple requests for comment.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-927d051\">\u2018They Raised His Self-Esteem\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Caterina Sanfelice was a hairstylist in her forties when a friend first invited her to a BAYS lecture around 1993. \u201cIt was like going to a fancy caf\u00e9 with an orator,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Percowicz spoke of<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>finding inner strength, she recalls, hooking people with promises of answers in the next session. Ms. Sanfelice said she started going to the talks at least once a week with her family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Eventually, she said, it became clear something was off. Ms. Sanfelice said Mr. Percowicz told her that \u201che felt like God.\u201d His closest followers started calling him \u201cangel\u201d or \u201cmaster.\u201d Then, at a BAYS party, Ms. Sanfelice said two women propositioned her husband while other members undressed to prepare for an orgy. She ran out of the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Ms. Sanfelice told her husband she did not want to go back, she said, he replied that the school saw in him what she did not see: a great architect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey raised his self-esteem,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s when he started to feel important. And I became the witch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Sanfelice said her husband, who could not be reached for comment, left her in 1993 and stayed involved with BAYS. She said she was exasperated and felt like no one believed her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then came some validation: the first criminal case against BAYS, which captured international attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the center of it was Maria Valeria Llamas, who was 20 and jobless when a family friend offered to take her to a BAYS lecture in 1990.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAt first we saw it as something positive,\u201d said Mart\u00edn Sommariva, Ms. Llamas\u2019s half brother. \u201cWe went from a Valeria who didn\u2019t go out, who was stuck in her room the whole time, to this Valeria who got on the bus and had an interest in something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But over the next few years, the yoga school consumed her life, her family said. Ms. Llamas broke up with her boyfriend and lost touch with friends. She stopped going to family outings. She began working at a pharmacy run by BAYS members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Soon after, her mother said, she found out Ms. Llamas had been pressured by the school to have an illegal abortion. When her family questioned her, Ms. Llamas replied that Mr. Percowicz was \u201can immortal angel.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The next day, two BAYS members showed up at the house, escorted by police officers, according to the family and court records from the case. They said they were suing the parents for \u201cunlawful deprivation of liberty.\u201d The police moved Ms. Llamas\u2019s belongings into an apartment owned by BAYS, her family said. Ms. Llamas later accused her stepfather of sexually assaulting her, court records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSuddenly the world came crashing down on us,\u201d recalled her mother, Elena. \u201cWe thought: What are we going to do now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">No rape charges were ever filed against the family members. Ms. Llamas did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The family filed a criminal complaint in 1993, accusing the school of being a cult that had brainwashed their daughter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The accusation ended up in the docket of Mariano Berg\u00e9s, a young judge starting his career. Under Argentina\u2019s judiciary system at the time, judges could both investigate cases and oversee the court proceedings. As part of the investigation, Mr. Berg\u00e9s said in an interview, he authorized a raid of the headquarters and some of BAYS\u2019s other properties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said the raids found boxes of letters that showed members paying Mr. Percowicz for a higher spiritual ranking in the organization. This was not illegal, but, combined with the testimony of former members, it led investigators to believe there was illegal activity underway. Mr. Berg\u00e9s then ordered wiretaps on Mr. Percowicz and his top deputies, which Mr. Berg\u00e9s said indicated a scheme to steal the assets of a deceased BAYS member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In depositions reviewed by The Times, several former BAYS members later said that Mr. Percowicz and his inner circle forced younger followers to be \u201cslaves\u201d to higher ranking members, making them carry out tasks like housework without pay. Former members also said that the organization promoted prostitution, the depositions show, though none said they had been prostituted themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But without human trafficking or money laundering laws in Argentina, Mr. Berg\u00e9s said, he had to build a case around fraud, promotion of prostitution and a flimsy charge known as \u201ccorruption of adults.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In late 1995, Mr. Berg\u00e9s withdrew from the case after being threatened with impeachment by Argentina\u2019s Congress. In an interview, he said the Congress and Supreme Court, as well as human-rights groups, pressured him to step down, saying that his investigation tactics, like the wiretapping and raids, violated the suspects\u2019 civil rights. He denies the accusations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Outside his house, he said, \u201cThe walls were plastered with posters and things against me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the mid-1990s, BAYS had opened wellness companies and a foundation in Chicago, Las Vegas and New York. It had gained a reputation as an education center for philosophy and wellness whose members included scholars, professionals and musicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">BAYS had also cultivated supporters in the U.S. Congress, though it is unclear how the lawmakers first became aware of the organization or whether any of them had any real knowledge or connections to the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Argentina, the criminal case against the organization continued to drag through the courts. More than 50 congressional members sent letters to the country\u2019s government demanding the investigation be closed, according to the House record. (There is no evidence that any U.S. politicians were members of BAYS or investigated by Argentine officials.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Edolphus Towns, a congressman representing part of Brooklyn, said in House testimony that BAYS members were being harassed by Argentine judicial officials, had been unlawfully imprisoned and subject to antisemitism. Mr. Percowicz and some of his top deputies are Jewish.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Towns, 89, retired in 2013 and did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Robert A. Underwood, a former congressman from Guam who signed a letter sent to President Bill Clinton calling for him to intervene, said in an interview that such missives were common. \u201cNobody really puts a lot of thought into it because you are signing letters all the time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Clinton, in his final year in office, responded to members of Congress in September 1999 and said that U.S. Embassy officials in Buenos Aires had \u201crecently reiterated to senior Argentine officials the importance of resolving this case as quickly as possible,\u201d according to a letter provided to The Times by the Clinton Presidential Library.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House\u2019s written response to Congress \u201creflects the extent of President Clinton\u2019s involvement in this,\u201d said Angel Ure\u00f1a, a spokesman for Mr. Clinton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Argentina, the criminal case against BAYS was eventually closed in the early 2000s with no convictions.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-7b89934d\">Trying to Make a Billion Dollars<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over the next 20 years, BAYS flourished, with little attention from Argentine authorities. During this period, Mr. Percowicz made clear he was in the business of making money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf what we wanted to do here was write a book about the life of Jesus, we wouldn\u2019t be thinking about anything other than the life of Jesus,\u201d Mr. Percowicz told his followers in 2006 in a video obtained by investigators. \u201cBut what we are trying to do here is make a billion dollars, one billion dollars, goddamn it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then, in 2021, BAYS ran into new trouble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Argentina\u2019s federal public prosecutor\u2019s office for trafficking and the exploitation of people opened an investigation into the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Investigators tapped the phones of Mr. Percowicz and some of his allies, capturing conversations that, according to prosecutors, show the work of managing a prostitution operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Transcripts filed in court show that in one call, Mr. Percowicz goes over the logistics of arranging what investigators say was a sexual encounter. In a separate recording, a BAYS manager tells Mr. Percowicz that a woman is bringing in only $6,000 a month, which is not enough money, suggesting she needs to bring in more for the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The wiretaps also recorded conversations with a man whom prosecutors say is Pl\u00e1cido Domingo, one of the world\u2019s most famous opera singers, who has faced numerous accusations of sexual harassment in recent years. In one call, he speaks to a woman who prosecutors say was a senior member of BAYS to discuss how she could get to his Buenos Aires hotel room without being noticed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Argentine prosecutors have not brought charges against Mr. Domingo in connection to the BAYS case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokesperson for Mr. Domingo said in a statement that the opera singer had not been charged \u201cand he is completely unrelated to the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prosecutors said that the majority of BAYS\u2019s income came from sex-trafficking activities, and was then laundered into real estate in Argentina and the United States, and they estimated BAYS\u2019s total assets at nearly $50 million as of December 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prosecutors say they are confident that the evidence and new laws will enable them to bring Mr. Percowicz and other defendants to justice. The case is currently working its way through the courts. No trial date has been set yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For Pablo Salum, whose mother first brought him to BAYS when he was only 8, justice is already too late. He left the organization when he was 12 and has become estranged from his mother and sister, who remain BAYS members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis could have ended 20 years ago,\u201d he said. \u201cEverything that is happening now would not have had to happen. And I may even have recovered my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Glenn Thrush<!-- --> contributed reporting from Washington.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/08\/world\/americas\/argentina-yoga-school-sex-cult.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Percowicz was an accountant with an unusual side hobby: teaching self-help classes around Buenos Aires with a heavy dose of ancient philosophy and New Age spiritualism. He was a hit and, with donations from his followers, he built an organization known as Buenos Aires Yoga School, or BAYS. 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