Criticism of Caberta

The Church of Scientology has said that Caberta harbors an anti-Scientology bias. In 2001 Caberta got under suspicion of corruption after it was confirmed that she privately received of check of 75,000 dollars from anti-Scientology interests. The following penal investigations against Caberta were dropped upon her payment of a 7,500 euro fine. ^[9] .

In 2007, Caberta presented an alleged former member of the Church of Scientology, Christian Markert, at a panel discussion in Berlin. Shortly thereafter the Church of Scientology alleged in a press release that Markert was a con artist and criminal ^[10] who had been sentenced to 18 months jail for fraud in France ^[11] and German media reported that Markert has an arrest warrant against him in Ireland for theft and the German police investigated against him in 2004 ^[12] . According to the Church of Scientology, his membership was of only three months duration, March--June 2007. ^[13] Markert had claimed to be a staff member of the Church of Scientology in the US and Ireland for seven years. A German public broadcasting station, SWR, concluded that the data about his life history is so contradictory in itself that a longstanding membership and high-rank in Scientology seem to be impossible. Markert gave an interview to the German magazine, Focus. The Baden-Wuerttemberg Office for Protection of the Constitution had also questioned him for several days and was convinced about the correctness of his data to a great extent. When confronted with SWR's investigations the Office for Protection of the Constitution declared that Markert's information “are considered with caution” ^{[12] [14]} .