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 ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, June 30. /TASS/. A court in Novosibirsk has sentenced Sergey Torop, head of the so-called Church of the Last Testament - also known as the Vissarion Community - to 12 years in prison, the ...

A court in Novosibirsk on Monday sentenced a Siberian cult leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ to 12 years in prison for harming the mental and physical health of his followers.