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Himachal Pradesh Police has questioned 17th Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorjee

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Bijender Sharma
SIDHBARI(Dharmshala)-- A team of Himachal Pradesh Police has questioned 17th Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorjee,  about the huge sum of foreign currency recovered during a raid at his office located in Sidhbari near Dharamsala. The Karmapa Lama was questioned by a three-member police team.During his questioning Karmapa was aided by a translator as he speaks only Chinese. Karmapa reportedly feigned ignorance about the source of money.
Highly Placed Sources disclosed that  1.14 lakh Chinese Yuan recovered from his office  was in serial number. They claim that such a large sum of money is usually meant for particular purpose. The total seized amount is Rs 7 crore including foreign exchange from 24 countries including China, Taiwan, japan, South Korea, the UK, the US, Australia, Germany."Karmapa was interviewed by the investigating officers on the source of money. The links with China is one of the various aspects being looked at. He is not under house arrest but certain restriction has been imposed on him," said Himachal Pradesh Director General of Police DS Minhas.
Shakti Lama, treasurer of Karmapa's monastery Gyato, has been sent to of police custody till February 5.Karmapa's sister was questioned on Friday.Meanwhile, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal sought time from the Union Government after the Finance Ministry asked for a report from the state government on the police raids and foreign exchange recovered during a raid at Karmapa's office in Dharamsala ."The Enforcement Directorate, Intelligence Bureau and Ministry of External Affairs are already looking into the matter. We will extend full support to the Government of India and we will follow their instructions," said Dhumal.Dhumal said that he would raise the issue during an internal security meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram next week. Meanwhile 
Union Finance Ministry has reportedly sought a report from the Himachal Pradesh government on 17th Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorjee, popularly known as Karmapa Lama, who stands accused of being a Chinese plant after police recovered Rs 1.6 crore during a raid at his office .
Karmapa Lama and other Tibetan leaders have reportedly bought huge tracts of land in various states . Karmapa was using the money to buy land for the setting up of monasteries and schools.

Some properties in Kolkata are also under scanner and Karmapa reportedly also owns lands in Sainik Farms in New Delhi and Pune as well.
Karmapa has also been embroiled with the local authorities over demolition notices for some of these properties.
The raid was carried by Himachal Police on Thursday and one person was arrested from Karmapa's office. But Tibetan Parliament-in-exile Speaker Penpa Tsering claimed that Karmapa was clean and he had nothing to do with financial dealings.
"We want to tell the world that Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje as a person is a very clean person. He has nothing to do with anything of this sort. But whatever has happened is very unfortunate," said Penpa Tsering in Dharamsala.
Investigating agencies suspect that the Karmapa may have been used to further China's designs of controlling all Indian monasteries from Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.

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