September 23, 2020.
The former traffic police officer has run a cult based in Siberia for the past three decades.
According to the Guardian Newspaper, choppers and security operatives stormed one of the communities run by Torop, aka Vissarion, and arrested him and two of his aides.
They are Vadim Redkin, a former drummer in a Soviet-era boy band, and Vladimir Vedernikov.
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The 59 year old Torop, would be charged with organising an illegal religious organisation and extortion of money from followers.
He lost his job as a traffic officer in 1989 and founded the Church of the Last Testament in 1991.
“I am not God. And it is a mistake to see Jesus as God. But I am the living word of God the father. Everything that God wants to say, he says through me,” Torop said in 2002.
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