son_goku wrote:"could you take this large heavy suitcase packed with unknown items to Madhuban with you?"
What was in your suitcase, did you ever look?
For the trust few, bags of '
cash-cash' was part of the courier run.
I don't know if the changes to Indian tax/charity law has made a different to the BKs (I know it made some). I 100% expect they are likely to still try to circumvent and break any financial law. And I know India always had a generous attitude towards the Desi diaspora bring back foreign currency ...
But those tucks and rolls in their saris have been well used, and certainly not just for smuggling "jewels of knowledge" around.
One of the more blatant transactions we heard of was where a private property was sold in one country, and the money for it came out of the BKWSU in a different country. I think it was India and the UK.
My first guess would be it was clearly some kind of tax avoidancy, possibly capital gains, or possible just transaction fees for moving such large amounts of money ... or perhaps the property had been bought by black money in the first place ... I do not know.
But it did sound like money laundering of some kind. We need more data.
Ditto, there were similar deals with Desi BKs in Silicon Valley. We've got evidence of BK Hansa Raval filling bogus immigration applications for high paid software workers who she claimed were working as "priests in the community".
I wonder what the BKs got out of their then $50,000 per year as a commission for getting them into the USA?
Of course, the Indian Sisters they trafficked about, with and without proper visas, tend just to be complicit unpaid servants.