Alex Croft looks at how Sergei Torop, also known as Vissarion, ended up in jail after he was accused of harming his followers ...

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

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 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 ...

Sergei Torop meets with his followers in the remote village of Petropavlovka in 2009 (Picture: Getty) One local resident claimed four helicopters and dozens of masked men had arrived in the area ...

Sergei Torop, who has thousands of followers, is arrested over causing harm to them and money extortion. Let us know you agree to data collection on AMP.

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; ...

News; World news; Russia 'Cult leader claimed to be modern-day Jesus' with 5,000 followers and 'Bible sequel' Sect leader Sergei Torop - known as Vissarion - is suspected of using his so -called ...

To his believers in this remote corner of Siberia, Sergei Torop, a former traffic policeman, is the literal reincarnation of none other than Jesus Christ.