Siberian cult chief who claimed to be Jesus will get 12-year sentence

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A Siberian cult chief who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ was sentenced to 12 years in a Russian jail camp after his conviction for bodily and financially harming his followers.

Sergei Torop, a former site visitors policeman identified to his followers as "Vissarion," which means "he who provides new life," and two aides used psychological stress to extract cash from his followers and trigger severe hurt to their psychological and bodily well being, Reuters reported.

Torop, 64, arrange the Church of the Final Testomony in a distant a part of Siberia's Krasnoyarsk area in 1991, the yr the Soviet Union broke up.

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Vissarion, who has proclaimed himself a brand new Christ, conducts a service throughout the Vacation of Good Fruit feast within the village of Obitel Rassveta, southeast of Russia's Siberian metropolis of Krasnoyarsk. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)

He was one in all three males convicted Monday within the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Torop and Vladimir Vedernikov had been sentenced to 12 years, and Vadim Redkin was sentenced to 11 years in a maximum-security jail camp.

All three males had been arrested in 2020 in a helicopter raid that concerned the FSB safety service, the successor company to the Soviet KGB.

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Members of the spiritual sect led by Vissarion, who has proclaimed himself a brand new Christ, participate in a procession on the eve of the Vacation of Good Fruit celebration within the Russian village of Petropavlovka. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin )

A bearded self-styled mystic with lengthy hair, Torop claimed to have been "reborn" to convey the phrase of God. He attracted hundreds of followers, a few of whom flocked to dwell in a settlement often known as the "Abode of Daybreak" or "Solar Metropolis" at a time when Russia was battling poverty and lawlessness, in accordance with Reuters.

He informed his followers to not eat meat, smoke, drink alcohol or swear and to cease utilizing cash.

Investigators stated the boys introduced "ethical hurt" to 16 folks, harm to the physical health of six folks and average harm to a different particular person's well being.

Members of the spiritual sect of Vissarion, who has proclaimed himself a brand new Christ, participate within the Vacation of Good Fruit feast in Siberia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin )