The traffic cop turned cult leader who claimed to be the son of god — and will now spend 12 years in jail - Alex Croft looks ...

Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic cop before founding the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 and claiming to be ...

A religious sect leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ has been sentenced to 12 years in a Russian ...

A self-styled mystic Vissarion and two aides were sentenced to prison for using psychological pressure to extract money and ...

Investigative Committee stated that Sergei Torop and his aides caused serious mental and physical harm to followers, ...

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

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

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 ...

Sergei Torop, known to his followers as Vissarion, is a former police officer who founded a movement known as the Church of the Last Testament nearly three decades ago. Skip to content.

SergeI Torop, 59, known as Vissarion, was arrested by Russian police in Siberia; Troops descended on Petropavlovka which sits 2,600 miles east of Moscow; ...

Sergei Torop, 59, will face charges for organizing an illegal religion and extorting money from his cult’s members, whom he allegedly emotionally abused, the Guardian reported Tuesday.

An elderly woman places a candle under a picture of "Vissarion the Teacher," or "Jesus of Siberia," Russian ex-traffic cop Sergei Torop at a church in the remote village of Petropavlovka, in ...