A leader sect to Russia He claimed to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ! A former police officer, Sergei Toror, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday (30.06.2025), after a court ruled that he had damaged the health and finances of his fans.
THE Surgeryformerly a carpenter in Russia, Known to his followers under the name “Vissarion”he founded the Church of the New Testament in a secluded, picturesque area of Krasnogiark, Siberia, in 1991, the year that the Soviet Union collapsed.
The bearded man with long hair said he was “reborn” to convey the word of God and attracted thousands of believers, some of whom went to live in a settlement, the ‘City of the Sun’at a time when Russia was facing poverty and lawlessness.
The 64 -year -old Toro.
Like the Research Committee, a FBI service in Russia, he accused his Toror and two assistants of exerting psychological pressure to get money from the faithful and caused serious damage to their mental and physical health.
Court of the city of Novosibirsk has announced that he had sentenced Toror and Vladimir Vndernikov to 12 years in prison and Vadim Redkin at 11 years in prison.
Sergei Anatoljewitsch Torop = Jesus Christ? pic.twitter.com/yZC0TatOmi
– believer (@glaubemir7) January 21, 2022
The three men should also pay 40 million rubles (about 500,000 euros) as compensation to their victims.
All three deny the categories.
Vndernikov was also accused of fraud.
In a BBC documentary in 2017, Simon Reeve interviewed the Toror who denied that he committed anything epileptic. The film showed that Students, whose parents were fans of “Vissarion”, were trained to become “future brides of worthy men”.