June 30 19:59
The court announced the verdict, which chose for the head of the sect created in the Krasnoyarsk Territory more than 30 years ago. This was reported in the prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk region.
Sergei Torop, who calls himself Vissarion, received a punishment in the form of 12 years in a maximum security colony. His supporters, Vladimir Vedernikov and Vadim Redkin, were sentenced to 12 and 11, respectively.
Sergei Torop, Vadim Redkin and Vladimir Vedernikov was accused of committing crimes directed against the procedure for the creation and activities of religious organizations encroaching on the personality and rights of citizens by applying violence and the provision of psychological impact to them, which caused harm to the health of various severity (part 1 of article 239 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, paragraphs “a”, “b” h. 3 art. 16 The victims caused non -pecuniary damage, 6 persons – severe harm to health and 1 person was harmful to the health of moderate severity, the prosecutor's office reported.
The civil lawsuits of the victims, as well as the lawsuit of the prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk Region, in the interests of the Russian Federation, the court satisfied the total amount of more than 45 million rubles.
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“The defense can now argue that the court has ignored all the arguments collected over the years – from the past time to the changes to the changed health of health. The verdict will be appealed up to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, and taking into account the ignoring the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, to this instance, too, ”the defense of the organizers of the“ Church of the Last Testament ”said.
Recall that the “Church of the Last Testament” was founded in 1991 by the former sergeant of the traffic police Sergei Torop, who declared himself “Christ”. The center of the religious community was the “Dawn Office” or “City of the Sun” – a settlement built in 1995 on the shores of Lake Tiberkul in the Kuraginsky district.
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