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

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

Meet Sergei Torop, or as he is popularly known, the 'Vissarion'. In the 1990s, Torop claimed he was the reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth.

Sergei Torop, a former traffic policeman known to his followers as "Vissarion," meaning "he who gives new life," and two aides used psychological pressure to extract money from his followers and ...

Sergei Torop, a former traffic policeman known to his followers as 'Vissarion', set up the Church of the Last Testament in a remote but picturesque part of Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region in 1991 ...

Sergei Torop, a former traffic policeman known to his followers as "Vissarion," set up the Church of the Last Testament in a remote but picturesque part of Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region in 1991 ...

Sergei Torop, a former traffic policeman known to his followers as 'Vissarion', set up the Church of the Last Testament in a remote but picturesque part of Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region in 1991 ...