Church scandals in 2024 probably won't be news that makes you snort holy water out of your nose in surprise, but this one is probably a curious novelty: an American one priest has several tens of thousands of US dollars for Mobile games embezzled.
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His Looks for microtransactions It lived out primarily in two comparatively particularly popular representatives of the mobile market: In Candy Crush and the Mario Kart spin-off for mobile phones, a large part of the stolen money is said to have flowed.
Priest steals over $40,000 in church money and spends it on mobile games
According to reports in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Reverend Lawrence Kozak on April 25 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania and charged with receiving church funds $40,000 from his former community, the St Thomas More Churchto have embezzled. According to the portal's information, his favorite objects of desire are in the mobile megahit Candy Crush and the smartphone offshoot Mario Kart Tour have found again.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia removed Kozak in November 2022 from his parish after internal investigations revealed that he “an astronomical amount of Apple transactions” made with the church credit card. This should take place in the period between September 2019 and July 2022 while Kozak is also said to have bought gifts for his goddaughter using church funds.
According to reports, the priest told investigators at the time that he had used the money to get married Advantage in the mobile titles he plays. Kozak added that he was struggling because of his addiction in treatment and denied that he had intentionally used the church funds for the massive microtransactions. Instead they are Credit card information St. Thomas More Church had already been stored in his cell phone so that it was automatically charged.
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Financial records would show that Kozak already $10,000 from his personal assets paid back to the municipality's credit card account. In addition, shortly after he was removed from office, he probably sent a check for $8,000 to his former parish – including a letter of apology to his successor, in which he conveyed that he wanted to pay the church back the money. Currently is Kozak is free on bailhis lawyer is now reviewing the charges and wants to contact the authorities.