Hardial Bains got his money by ripping off the East Indian Community (was: Canadian Maoists)

["Ben Seattle" <Left-Transparency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Issam Mansour:
> Actually, their money comes from the estate of their deceased
> leader Hardial Banes (known affectionately by many on the
> left as Hardly-Any-Brains).  It seems that the fellow was quite
> rich but I don't know the source of his money.

Macdonald:
> I believe they get money from some strange source
> however- they always run over 70 candidates in Federal
> elections, I have no idea how...

excerpt (below) from
"1st anniversary of the death of a charlatan" at
http://Leninism.org/stream/98/hardial-1st-anniv.htm

Hardial Bains founded various organizations in Canada to oppose
"state-organized racist attacks" like the East Indian Defence
Committee (EIDC), West Indian Peoples' Organization (WIPO),
Canadian Peoples' Defence Committee, Peoples Front (PF) against
racist and facist violence. These organizations tried to
implement the slogans "an injury to one is an injury to all" and
"an attack on one is an attack on all" and " all for one and one
for all" and "self-defence is the only way". These organizations
had a mass character and were very active in the seventies in
oppposition to racism.

In the late seventies, based on the great support he got from
these organizations, particularly EIDC, Hardial Bains set up
Community centers in Winnipeg, Toronto and Vancouver B.C. These
were called Desh Bhagat Temple (DBT) and were housed in
fair-sized buildings which were purchased with money contributed
by ordinary citizens, but mainly from the East Indian community.
Local radio stations even used to carry ads for them. They were
managed by the EIDC and owned by a trust set-up by the EIDC.
Hardial used these centers for his political meetings and EIDC
got regular revenue from renting these places to citizens for
social occasions. In 1989-1990 Hardial changed the composition of
the trust, and brought into it his own nominees. These trustees
manipulated matters so as to convert these properties into money.
By early 1994 the deals had been done and the money was in
Hardials' hands and in a matter of time the properties were sold.
By 1996, there were no community centers (DBT's) in existence.
The beneficiaries of these manipulations were none other than
Hardial Bains and his close collaborators. The amount they
benefitted by is estimated to be about $2 million!