The Guru of OKC would currently live in a luxurious villa in Malaga with a dozen faithful to his side. Between 1980 and 2000, this sectarian Buddhist inspiration moved away the children from the faithful to the castle of Soleils, located near Castelllane in Provence. Parents were mobilized in OKC restaurants and stores scattered through Brussels, the city of origin of Spatz. These workers were exploited, almost all of their salary donated to the accounts of the sect.
The children were isolated in this monastery in the south of France and educated according to the precepts of the “Lama Kunzang”, the other name of the guru. They only saw their parents only twice a year. Many testimonies have been broadcast since on daily life at the castle of Soleils: case of mistreatment, deprivation of food, untimely bullying were common.
Several young girls have also accused the guru of sexual abuse over the years.
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Five years suspended in Belgium
The octogenarian has already been sentenced to Belgium for many prejudices ranging from false, extortion, money laundering and the exploitation of workers to take hostage of children and sexual abuse. Robert Spatz had received five years in prison suspended even if he had not presented himself at any hearing both in the Brussels Criminal Court and at the Liège Court of Appeal. The OKC file. At first instance, he had been sentenced to four years suspended prison sentence, against the thirteen firm years required by the prosecution.
On appeal, the prosecution had been declared inadmissible, thus trying the 36 victims, of the children of the monastery formed civil parties. Finally, the Court of Cassation had broken this decision and returned the file to Liège. A new power in cassation took place but that was rejected in 2022, definitively confirming the conviction of the Lama Kunzang.
Robert Spatz would have a real estate and financial heritage estimated at several million euros. An amount that interests both the French and Belgian authorities who could in particular be used to compensate the victims of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling sect.
