Court Verdict Proves The Innocence Of My Teacher Grieg
In 2004, the Romanian authorities started what the mainstream media of the time called “the largest police operation since communism”. Over 300 policemen, gendarmes and special forces raided almost 20 locations where yoga practitioners, students of MISA yoga school, were living. Truckloads of goods were confiscated; people were detained for hours at gun-point, beaten and shown in strange and misleading circumstances on TV. It was only in 2007 when the prosecution managed to come before the court with a file, accusing yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru (MISA yoga school’s mentor) and 20 other yoga teachers from the same school, of human trafficking. One might think that the whole thing was about some women forced to sell their bodies for the profit of some, but in reality it was the practice of the ancient system of karma yoga that was overnight turned into a crime with a very scary name in today’s almost paranoid society.
Yesterday, 11th February 2015, 11 years after that unfortunate incident, the Cluj court (a large city in Romania, in the heart of Transylvania) found Mr. Gregorian Bivolaru and all the other yoga teachers not guilty. After a trial that put the life of 21 yoga teachers in a perspective that tested their yogic detachment and after a strange media campaign that endangered the life of many thousands of yoga students of the biggest yoga school in Romania, the verdict finally came: not guilty for every soul accused in the trial, beginning with Grieg.
An expected result, one could say, since the whole file was fabricated in the most pure communistic style. The “victims” were 7 people who requested many millions of euro in damages for the fact they had done voluntary work for the benefit of the yoga school. Most of them left the yoga school some years before 2004 when they were sought by the pack of desperate prosecutors, keen to show their bosses some results and get an easy promotion.
Some of these alleged victims signed declarations written by the prosecutors (as was proven during the trial) because they could not remember almost any details from their life among the other yoga practitioners. But it is not the absurdity of this file and the trial itself I want to talk about here – I am sure this will be addressed in a competent analysis from the human rights organizations – it is the court verdict I want to comment upon now. Indeed this verdict was a great victory of justice, but who are the losers?
In the verdict the judge dismisses the accusation of human trafficking as being not founded upon facts! After millions of euro have been spent on this investigation; after the authorities have thrown grave accusations against the yoga school directly through the media with complete irresponsibility; after fabricating of evidence … the file cannot make a point and the accusations are not founded upon facts??? I wonder what kind of investigation this is, what kind of justice system can reach to such a conclusion unless there are other interests behind the scenes?
Moreover, the judge dismissed some of the prosecutor’s evidence (namely phone tapping) as being illegal! Yes you read correctly, not only the prosecutor’s fabricated declarations were contradictory, but they came with illegally obtained information that did not present direct relevance to the trial, but was meant to discredit it. This shows only one thing: the case and the whole trial was only meant to be a smear campaign and not an act of justice. It is a significant fact for anyone interested in finding out the truth that such illegally obtained information was first presented in the media EVEN BEFORE IT REACHED THE FILE ON THE JUDGE’S DESK! Not only is this completely illegal but it proves without any doubt the real intention behind this circus.
As if the circus was not big enough, the reports made by the Association of Romanian Psychologists and the one made by the police’s expert in psychological profiles, psychologist Tudorel Butoi, were declared illegal! Why would a professional association make an illegal report? Was it their first attempt? For sure it was not. But somehow they lost it, they couldn’t see clearly through the maze of occult pressure, trafficking of influence and private agendas. Who would have the means to twist the hand of a national association of professionals? For sure not some small fish, it was coming from high up in the power structures, perhaps in the line of those who have at their essence the obedience attitude.
What then of the police’s profiling expert, Tudorel Butoi, whose report was dismissed by the judge as being illegal? Would it be significant if I told you that he is the same person who was used by the communist regime when they wanted to profile someone as crazy and to lock them up in a mental hospital in order to avoid a political case? Just to add some perspective, you need to know that the 2004 events were coordinated by (then) prosecutor Chaborsky, (now happily retired), an old veteran of the communist regime that politically persecuted Gregorian Bivolaru before 1989 (as proven in court in 2011 after many years of fighting with the crypto-communists that are still in the system). Same old, same old! How is it possible that nobody from the mainstream media is talking about these staggering “coincidences”, but they are serving the same propaganda machine that they are supposed to publicly expose? It is not the first time they have done this and unfortunately not the last. However, this trial and its verdict reveal another aspect: there are increasingly more people who are not willing to sell their souls to a bunch of psychopaths in power and are standing up for their humanity. This I warmly and wholeheartedly salute!
Considering all of this, the conclusion is very simple: the trial was won by Gregorian Bivolaru and the other 20 yoga teachers from MISA yoga school who patiently proved their innocence in an exaggeratedly long trial. This trial was won by a group of very dedicated lawyers who were not scared by the social pressure exerted upon them and the threats they sometimes received. It was also won by the judge who stood up to the immense moral pressure made by privately owned media and to the political interference from other circles of power.
But it was the trust of the people that was lost in this trial; the trust in a system that proves to have severe flaws and an almost generalized corruption. What can one expect from the prosecutor’s appeal to this court decision? Clearly more people’s awakening and standing up to the mistakes that this system makes – abuses done in the name of some nice words but which are in reality serving some personal interests. More people saying NO to the obedience of all colors and rites that are paralyzing the development of today’s society.
For now its celebration time, but vigilance is still required because the signs demand it still.
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I just finished re-reading your article. It is actually shocking and at a first impression so it seems impossible in the 21st century in a country of the European community. But unfortunately everything you wrote here is perfectly true, even worse. We find here in staging this process from Cluj, really the same “signature” ,same “directors” followers of the fascist, communist- Stalinist ages.
Incredible that such things can happen in a country approved to be part of EU. Not that the justice system in the rest of Europe is necessarily more just and incorruptible, but the fact that they so openly can present illegal evidence, biased “experts” and staged accusations is a complete farce – not a system of justice.
Congratulations to the wrongfully accused. Good to see that justice still prevails.
Thank you for your post Advaita. Congratulations to Grieg and the accused teachers of our yoga school! This is a great victory.
But I wonder how is it possible that we so easily won this case? Is there something changing in the political climate? Is there something changing in the campaign against MISA yoga school? I wonder if the heavy handed grip of injustice against this school is finally starting to weaken? Or is this victory just a singular case?
@ Petra
This was not a singular case. In 2006 Grieg was granted the status of political asylum in Sweden after a trial that took place at the Supreme Court of Justice of Sweden. Another famous case was the case for which Grieg was grated asylum in Sweden due to the fact that the romanian authorities were unable/unwilling to offer him a fair trial and his life was at risk, should he attend the trial in Romania (according to the Swedish Supreme Court Decision). In this case, the first instance and the appeal court decided both upon Grieg’s innocence, stating that the alleged accusations are not based on real facts!
Indeed this court decision is only the first level, the prosecutors having the chance to appeal the decision and take the case higher up in the justice system. But one can only hope that this case will end here.
On the other hand the international pressure exerted upon the romanian authorities and the notoriety of this case among european officials makes the situation little better now and we have hopes that the abuses against this yoga school will become a memory.
This case was one of the most preposterous things I have ever seen, and I consider I’ve had my share in this life of such. From the very beginning of prosecution of Gregorian Bivolaru done already during the communist times, where he was accused by attempts on Nicolae Caucescu’s (dictator of Romania at that time) life using esoteric methods. In which, by the way, the state officially didn’t believe. Then comes the entire campaign against the school he initiated, apparently because of the sexual content courses had. But that is just another example of a total hypocrisy. Having people getting drunk and have casual sex with strangers this system considers cool and even trendy, but when someone teaches people how to access the wonders inherent in human sexuality, outcry of stupid accusations follow. I am not sure if this is the end of the story, but I am glad to hear that at least this chapter concluded with some common sense.
Well done! Let’s hope all this will end with all trials won, if there still are some. I congratulate all teachers that were put on this test and remained true to their path.
The trial was really dragged so many years long…? and no proofs in the end. So, the whole ‘trial’ is a shame for the Romanian justice.
I sincerrely hope that this verdict of innocence which the Cluj court found yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru and all the others 20 yoga teachers not guilty will be the final one. Indeed this verdict was a great victory of true justice.
As long as Romania doesn’t fulfill the Copenhagen criteria (“…stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities…”) it should not belong to the EU!
@ Werner
Its a little too late for that … and for the Eu to turn around. It seems that the crisis is revealing all the errors that were made in the inception of these megalomaniac european constructions and there is little the citizens can do now apart from learning the lesson and withdraw their trust from those that were conducting this social circus ….
Yes you are right. Even more than this, some people started to point out the problems. I found online that swedish politicians comment on the fact that Romania is not at the needed standards: http://m.thelocal.com/20141223/romanians-go-hungry-as-mega-cathedral-rises-to-the-heavens
The first time I must admit that I find it incredible how long was the process for this case. More than 10 years !!! It seems clear that this school is obstructed in its development. I am glad that finally ended well this process and also at least on me makes me more attentive and vigilant about the system that is supposed to take care of people of society in such cases.
im very happy that we are clean and innocent ,i felt that my heart had a huge unblock deep inside
Satyamev Jayate! “truth will always be victorious” Great victory! and it seems the lawyers , the judges and everyone who looks deeper into this case, against an innocent man; can not help , but transform their prejudice into love. They end up respecting, and adoring Grieg…
and so maybe the ‘Establishments’ decided to disbandon this machinery which is proving to go against them by recruiting more sympathisers than haters…
I have been part of MISA since 5 years already, and still amaze me how many lies the rumanian media has made up about Grieg, other teachers and our yoga school.
Thanks for the article, Advaita