Russian ‘rape cult’ leader who told followers he was ‘alien’ finally caught in Argentina
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A Russian cult leader who claimed he would rape his female followers has been detained in Argentina.
Konstantin Rudnev, already convicted of sexual abuse in Russia, was arrested in the city of Bariloche, on charges of human trafficking. Local media reports that he was stopped along with 13 others. Video footage shows him being arrested, with the police also detaining a number of women.
They can be seen being placed in handcuffs and forcibly taken away. Rudnev was sentenced to 11 years in prison in Siberia in August 2013, after being accused of raping his female followers. The leader of his own sect, Ashram Shambala, founded in the late 1980s in Novosibirsk, he called himself the “Great Shaman Shri Dzhnan Avatar Muni.”
He amassed about 20,000 fanatical followers all over the country, with branches in various parts of the former Soviet Union. He reportedly claimed to be a god from the star Sirius, an alien with mystical powers, and led orgies, amid a mix of yoga and esotericism.
His female disciples danced naked around him in bizarre videos that were leaked to the press. The sect’s strategies reportedly followed a pattern that many cults follow to gain new followers, including breaking down members psychologically, forcing them to sell their possessions and making them hand over their money.
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