McPhar Geosurveys and Corporate ISKCON

BY: SUN STAFF

Sep 19, 2011 — CANADA (SUN) — In the article of this date entitled “Bhakti Caru Swami Bankruptcy Appeal Committee“, the authors have described in some detail a situation involving the Swami’s difficulty with private financial dealings. Because the ISKCON Ujjain temple is closely associated with the Swami’s private financial matters we are providing the following additional information, should it be helpful to anyone seeking to protect Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON assets.

The Sun’s May 19, 2010 Feature story, “Corporate ISKCON – Part 17“, mapped a cluster of corporations and related individuals branching off from the ISKCON Orlando corporation. One of these was McPhar Geosurveys USA, Inc. The corporate listing follows:

McPhar Geosurveys USA, Inc.
Incorporated by Graeme Duncan, Sudipto N Mukerji, McPhar Geosurveys USA, Inc. is located at 1617 Kersley Cir Lake Mary, FL 32746. McPhar Geosurveys USA, Inc. was incorporated as a domestic for-profit on Friday, March 14, 2008 in the State of FL and is currently inactive. Graeme Duncan represented McPhar Geosurveys USA, Inc. as their registered agent.

In the cluster map for this report, we can see that the connection from ISKCON Orlando is through David Daniels, who is also associated with Worldwide Outsource Solutions Inc. and Superior Custom Shutters, Inc. Another individual associated with these same two corporations is Priyabrata Sar, who is linked to two more corporations – Prem’s Enterprize, Inc. and Global Network for Krishna Consciousness, Inc. One of the principals of Global Network for Krishna Consciousness, Inc. is Graeme Duncan, who is also associated with McPhar Geosurveys.

Although Ambarish das is mentioned in the Bankruptcy Appeal Committee’s article, we had not yet connected him in the Corporate ISKCON mapping project to either Graeme Duncan or McPhar Geosurveys. Needless to say, we have a great deal more work to do in completing that series, and much data in hand that needs to be pushed into Cluster Reports. For further information, refer to the Master Index of Individuals and Master Index of Corporations, or search the Sun Features Index for 66 segments of the ‘Corporate ISKCON’ series (Apr-Nov 2010).

Following are a number of additional data points related to McPhar Geosurveys and the Bhakti Caru Swami story:

Sudipto N Mukerji, a principle in McPhar, is listed in some corporate records with a Kolkata, West Bengal address.

Another cluster of connections not yet mapped into the Corporate ISKCON series are those connecting Graeme Duncan of McPhar Geosurveys to two corporations: 3 Anchor Bay, Inc. and Divine Foods, Inc. In the latter, Duncan is joined by co-director Keshava Best (son of Howard and Edith Best / Pratyatosa das and Urmila devi dasi (ACBSP). Grant F. Duncan is also associated with both 3 Anchor Bay, Inc. and Divine Foods, Inc.

Divine Foods, Inc.
Divine Foods, Inc., with offices in Escondido, CA, was incorporated by Graeme E Duncan and Keshava Best on November 24, 2003 in the state of California and is currently active. Keshava Best serves as the registered agent for the corporation, whose line of business is listed as Wholesale Groceries and Health Foods, also trading as Mount Govardan Products.

3 Anchor Bay, Inc.
3 Anchor Bay, Inc. was incorporated by Graeme E. Duncan and Grant F. Duncan on April 22, 2004 in the state of Florida. Incorporated as a domestic For-profit, with offices in Escondido, CA, the corporation is currently inactive.

Another corporation mentioned in the Bankruptcy Appeal Committee’s article is Skyvision Exploration Inc.

Skyvision Exploration Inc.
A Canadian corporation headquartered in Toronto, Skyvision Exploration Inc. works in the field of Surveying Instruments Manufacturers. With a reported annual revenue of $296,220, the Company employs a staff of approximately two. William Prasad is director.

It is not yet known if William Prasad is associated with Sunita Prasad, who is listed in Corporate ISKCON Cluster Report #52 as a director of the Chaitanya Educational Foundation in Washington, IL.

Among other names associated with McPhar Geosurveys’ Canadian/US operations are:

Robert Hearst
P. Geoph
Tomas Grand
Tonia Bojkova
Christina Clark
Daniel McKinnon
John Currie
Dallas Antill
Rebecca Bodger
Tim Bodger
Hakon Askerhaug
Bob Passon
Dallas Antill
Rory Clayton
Andre Leblanc

In India, McPhar Geosurveys Ltd. is associated with Alcock McPhar Geotech India Pvt. Ltd. of Kolkata. The following persons are associated with Alcock McPhar:

Shivakeshavulu Amuka — McPhar geophysicist, Hyderabad
Ramesh Acharya Gunti – McPhar Senior Geophysicist, Hyderabad

According to industry reports, McPhar Geosurveys is the majority owner of Alcock McPhar Geotech (AMG), and W.J. Alcock & Co (P) Ltd of Kolkata, India is the other shareholder of AMG. Alcock is a reputed manufacturer of Industrial and Laboratory Furnaces and caters to numerous government and corporate clients throughout India. Alcock was formerly the representative of McPhar in India and has now partnered with them to jointly explore Indian market potential.

McPhar Geosurveys Ltd. is also associated with McPhar Switzerland AG, an organization headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

McPhar Switzerland AG
McPhar can trace its origins back nearly 50 years. Since its founding, it has changed ownership several times, and has undergone several makeovers. In the summer of 2002, a group of investors acquired a majority interest in McPhar Geophysics Ltd, and changed the company’s name to McPhar Geosurveys Ltd., to reflect changes in McPhar’s core business activities. In early 2003, McPhar Geosurveys acquired many of the assets and hired many of the personnel of Aero Surveys Inc., an airborne geophysical survey contractor that specialized in high-resolution airborne geophysical surveying for mining and oil & gas exploration.

McPhar Switzerland AG is associated with:

Daniel Beffa

As time permits our research into which of the above-mentioned individuals are devotees or are otherwise associated with ISKCON, we will post a new Cluster Report adding this information to the Corporate ISKCON project.