Editing Iriadamant (section)

== Deportation and disbandment ==
Erkki Pulliainen withdrew from the project after he suspected a scam, and ceased funding their research.<ref name=":4" /> Pulliainen later described the leader of the group, Maltais, as charismatic, socially gifted, and an excellent manipulator.<ref name=":2" /> 
After Pulliainen pulled his support, the Finnish Immigration Office did not want to extend the residency permit of the group. The decision was appealed by {{Ill|Antti Seppälä|fi}}, then the Commissioner for Foreigners.<ref name=":0" />

At the end of March 1993, MP {{Ill|Tina Mäkelä|fi}} of the [[Finnish Rural Party]] submitted a written question in the parliament about the residence of the Iriadamant Indians in Finland. Mäkelä inquired about prohibiting future 'lifestyle studies', and asked whether the government was going to compensate the interested parties for the costs caused by the group. She estimated financial damage to be above one million [[Finnish markka|markka]]. Interior Minister [[Mauri Pekkarinen]] stated in his answer that there was nothing suggestive of a crime in the group's activities and that the inquiry did not give rise to further action in that regard. Pekkarinen said that the processing of expenses the group might cause to individuals or companies was not part of the tasks of public authorities.<ref name="EDUS" />

In the summer of 1993, the group performed a "Walking Speech" across Finland. The Iriadamant spread their philosophy and gathered signatures for a petition showing support for the movement. Overall, 7,000 signatures were accrued and the petition was sent to president [[Mauno Koivisto]].<ref name=":1" />

The group was ultimately deported by the decision of the Ministry of the Interior, which was justified by the expiration of the temporary residence permit.<ref name="EDUS" /> The Iriadamant were subsequently prevented from accessing the camp in Lainio.<ref name=":1" /> In August 1993, over two truckloads of garbage were removed from the camp by volunteers.<ref name="outojoukko" /> The [[Supreme Administrative Court of Finland|Supreme Administrative Court]] rejected the group's appeal against the deportation decision at the end of September 1993.<ref name=":5">''Mitä-Missä-Milloin, Kansalaisen vuosikirja 1995'', Helsinki: Otava, 1994. ISBN 951-1-13254-7.</ref>

The members of the group, of which there were 56 in the final stage, had announced that they would depart the country from [[Helsinki-Vantaa Airport]] on November 3, 1993. However, they did not appear.<ref name=":5" /> In actuality, a busload of passportless Iriadamant drove across the border to Sweden and down to the Netherlands. The group made it as far as Italy before they decided to disband.<ref name=":1" />

In 1993, a Belgian court charged Maltais of, among other things, fraud and embezzlement. He escaped prosecution. He later moved to [[Nicaragua]], where he allegedly died in 2015.<ref name=":1" /> Ecoovie appeared on the ''[[Rapport Gest-Guyard]]'' list of French cults in 1995.<ref name="nhf" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Commission d'enquête sur les sectes|url=https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/rap-enq/r2468.asp |website=assemblee-nationale.fr |access-date=3 December 2022}}</ref>