Title fraud Rients Ritskes, zen.nl

In April 2013 it became clear that Rients Ritskes, leader of Dutch Zen enterprise Zen.nl, committed title fraud for years. Below are the press releases that appeared about this, translated into English.

Press releases (pdf)
April 14th, 2013 - Title fraud at Zen.nl, authorizations have no formal value
April 18th, 2013 - Admittance refused to Ritskes in Japanese monasteries
April 26th, 2013 - Ritskes in monastery only for a short time
April 28th, 2013 - Press declaration Tsushimoto Roshi

Dutch national newspaper Trouw (article, Dutch) published about it. So did online Buddhist media Open Boeddhisme (overview of articles, Dutch) and the Boeddhistisch Dagblad (overview of articles, Dutch). The Dutch Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation made a radio-documentary about it (mostly Dutch, some Japanese and English).