Bartholomew Blackmailed, Bribed into Recognising Ukraine’s Filaret Group
This happened with the help of the U.S. State Department, James George Jatras, a former U.S. diplomat and Republican adviser writes on Strategic-cultur.org (November 17).
This July, the State Department warned the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America that it knew Bartholomew had misappropriated about $10 million raised to construct St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in New York.
The State Department promised to ignore the matter if Bartholomew would grant autocephaly to the pro-regime Ukrainian Filaret group. Jatras writes that the U.S. further paid $25 million to Bartholomew to make this happen.
Ukrainian Puppet President Poroshenko was commissioned to deliver the cash during his April 9 Constantinople visit but he consigned only $10 million keeping the rest for himself.
When Bartholomew found out about this he refused to send a delegation for July celebration of the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia in Kiev. So, Poroshenko was forced to hand over the stolen money.
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