Siberian cult leader ‘Vissarion’ who claims to be ‘re-incarnation of Jesus Christ’ arrested over psychological violence

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Police in Siberia have arrested three leaders of the notorious ‘Church of the Last Testament’ religious sect on suspicion of using psychological violence to extract income, resulting in “serious harm” to their followers.

Founded in 1991, the movement forbids its adherents from smoking, drinking or exchanging money, and they live as vegetarian subsistence farmers. The sect’s creator, Sergey Torop, believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and brands himself as ‘Vissarion’.

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