காப்புThe founder holds nothing.
The standard attack on a diaspora institution is not that its evidence is wrong. It is that the institution is a vehicle for one man. The defence cannot be a denial — denials are cheap. It has to be a set of mechanisms that make the accusation checkable and therefore answerable.
Statutory asset lock
TLTE C.I.C. is a Community Interest Company limited by guarantee without share capital (Co. No. 16426152, England and Wales). There is no share capital to hold, so there is no ownership stake for the founder or anyone else to acquire. The statutory CIC asset lock restricts transfer of assets out of the company.
No personal or family property in the archive
No property owned by the founder or by any member of his family is held, mortgaged, pledged, or otherwise entangled with the archive. The institution owns nothing that a family dispute, a bereavement, or a bankruptcy could reach.
Zero key-shares
In the sealed custody arrangement for the communications layer, the founder holds zero key-shares. Recovery requires a threshold of multi-jurisdiction trustees. The person most associated with the project cannot unilaterally open, move, or destroy the material.
Lowest structural position
The founder holds the Governance seat and nothing above it. Rungs 8–10 of the Vin ladder are conferred by named holders; the founder cannot confer standing on himself, and no rung grants a monetary interest of any kind.
Refusals are published, not resolved privately
Requests that would concentrate control — a donation conditional on a seat, a co-branding offer, a licensing approach — are recorded in the public Refusal Ledger with the ground of refusal. A capture attempt cannot be quietly accepted, because acceptance would have to appear as a gap in a dated list.
TLTE C.I.C. is incorporated in England and Wales (Co. No. 16426152, Companies House, 2 May 2025) with the statutory CIC asset lock in force. The structure above is published doctrine sitting on top of that vehicle. The Founder holds the Governance seat. All four publicly recruited Pillar seats and all 500 Sabhai seats are unfilled. Zero is shown as zero.
Custody passes to a multi-jurisdiction trustee body with a threshold recovery scheme, an independent audit of the asset lock, and a published succession instrument that takes effect without requiring the founder's participation or consent.
Registrar record: Companies House · 16426152