Former traffic cop Sergei Torop commanded followers to stop using money while extracting funds from them through ...

Sergei Torop, a Russian sect leader claiming to be Jesus reincarnated, received a 12-year prison sentence for harming followers' health and finances. Known as 'Vissarion,' he founded a religious sect ...

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after ...

After losing his job as a traffic officer in 1990, Sergei Torop, 64, claimed to have been reborn as Vissarion and went on to ...

Russian authorities have sentenced a Siberian sect leader to 12 years in a prison camp for harming his followers' health and ...

FILE PHOTO: Vissarion, who has proclaimed himself a new Christ, conducts a service during the \"Holiday of Good Fruit\" feast in a village southeast of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk ...

Earlier, a Novosibirsk court sentenced Torop and Vedernikov to 12 years in prison, and Redkin to 11 years in prison ...

Sergei Torop, a former traffic officer who calls himself “Vissarion,” founded the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 after what he described as a divine revelation. He attracted thousands of ...