INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 after what he described as a divine revelation
He attracted thousands of followers to remote settlements in Siberia, including a core group of about 300 living in isolation atop a hill
creating a religious organization that violated the civil rights of its members and caused bodily harm.Prosecutors accused Torop of using
psychological manipulation to exert control over and exploit followers for labor and money between 1991 and 2020.His actions, they said,
raid on his Krasnoyarsk region commune in 2020
It was not immediately clear if they planned to appeal their sentences.The court also awarded 45 million rubles ($572,000) in damages to the
isolated itself after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, shutting its communes to outsiders.AFP contributed reporting.
