The head of the cult of the Siber who claims to be Jesus is sentenced to 12 years

A Siberian head of worship who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ was sentenced to 12 years in a Russian prison camp after his conviction for having physically and financially harmed his disciples.

Sergei Torop, a former traffic police officer known to his supporters under the name of “Vissarion”, which means “he who gives a new life” and two aids used psychological pressure to extract money from his disciples and cause serious damage to their mental and physical health, reported Reuters.

Torop, 64, set up the church of the last will in a remote part of the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia in 1991, the year when the Soviet Union broke.

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Vissarion, who has proclaimed a new Christ, leads a service during the holidays of the good fruit party in the village of Obitel Rassveta, southeast of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk in Russia. (Reuters / Ilya Naymushin)

He was one of the three men sentenced on Monday in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Torop and Vladimir Vedernikov were sentenced to 12 years old and Vadim Redkin was sentenced to 11 years in a maximum security prison camp.

The three men were arrested in 2020 during a helicopter raid involving the FSB security service, the successor agency of the Soviet KGB.

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Members of the religious sect led by Vissarion, which has proclaimed a new Christ, participated in a procession on the eve of the Fair Festival Festival in the Russian village of Petropavlovka. (Reuters / Ilya Naymushin)

Mystical supposedly for long hair, Torop claimed to have been “reborn” to transmit the Word of God. He attracted thousands of disciples, some of whom flocked to live in a colony known as “dawn home” or “Sun City” at a time when Russia was fighting against poverty and anarchy, according to Reuters.

He told his disciples not to eat meat, smoke, drink alcohol or swear and stop using money.

Investigators said men had caused “moral damage” to 16 people, physical health damage to six people and moderate health damage to another person.

Members of the Vissarion religious sect, which has proclaimed a new Christ, participates in the feast of the good fruit party in Siberia. (Reuters / Ilya Naymushin)

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Vedernikov had also been accused of having committed fraud, reported the state of Ria’s state.