Constantine Rudnjev, the founder of the Russian cult “Ashram Šambala” is also among the arrested. Almost everyone was detained by Russian citizens.
Eight people were arrested at the airport in Argentine Bariloche, and six in Buenos Aires. During the arrest, you tried to cut his neck with a razor, but police officers reacted on time, transmits index.hr.
According to the local media, Ecommicas Bariloche, El Observador and LM Neuquén, Rudnjev arrived in Bariloche with a group of women and sold yoga courses at a price of $ 5,000.
The case of a minor pregnant woman initiated an investigation
Police began to investigate after the pregnant girl from Russia brought to the hospital in Bariloche. Although he wrote in the passport that he was 22, doctors estimated that he was not older than 15. She did not know where she lived, and women who were with her had visible injuries and signs of abuse.
The hospital reported the police, which put the girlfriend and her companion under the supervision. When 21. March returned to the hospital to give birth, she was with several more women who destroyed a document with the name of the child’s father. On the same day, the police arrested five Russian and one Mexican, but they were soon released. Young mother and baby are moved to safe.
With a later search of the house where the girl stayed was found the documents in the name of Rudnjev. He escaped before the arrival of the police, but he was arrested seven days later, in the slippers and cocaine in the backpack, while trying to leave the country from Bariloche airport.
Among the other 13 were arrested at least 12 are women, many of whom were malnourished, and one was almost completely lost hair.
Criminal history “Visitor from Sirius”
In the house in Bariloche police found 131 cocaine tablets, 12 cell phones, 10 SIM cards, satellite telephone, cash in the amount of nearly $ 15,000, more than a million Argentine Pesos (about 930 euros) and truck.
Authorities now investigate whether the Rudnjev in Argentina has restarted the sect, whether it is associated with drug smuggling and are women who are arrested victims of sexual exploitation.
Constantine Rudnjev (57) He was born in Novosibirsk, and he graduated from the School for Mechanical Technicians. At the end of the 1980s, he began to keep yoga courses in his hometown. According to the writing of the Russian snob portal, Rudnjev also showed interest in mystic and spirituality in school days.
Over time, his seminars turned into a kind of cult. He gathered a small group of followers around him, sold the booklet and maintained the sets of seminars for “Enlightening”.
He started wearing exotic clothes, took names like Sri Dznan Avatar Muni or Sotilijan Sikoriski and asked for complete obedience. He learned a mixture of eastern religions, paganism, alternative medicine and occult, claiming that he was “a visitor from Sirius.”
He asked followers to interrupt the relationship with his family, surrender all his property and dedicate his life.
Sexual exploitation under the crisp of spirituality
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The members of the CULT lived in the so-called Ashrams, apartments bought by the Rudnjev with money earned from yoga and seminars. The majority of the group consisted of young women with whom he slept under the pretext of “spiritual practice”.
Police later revealed that group orgies, rape, homosexual and even bestial acts were happening in the cult. His book the Fool’s path was some kind of “Bible” sect, and on the cover were photographs of a rudge surrounded by levees women. Many recorded during sexual rituals, and the recordings were seized in arrest.
The women who called “priests” he made her beat to each other, starved and abused. The members of the cult were exhausted, malnourished, subjected to the hours of yoga, exercise, bizarre “astro-karate meditation” and psychological terror.
The cult “Ashram Šambala” acted in Russia for almost 20 years and had thousands of followers. Although the families of the victims reported to the police at the end of the 1990s, which was happening, the authorities did not work for years. In some cases, the members of the sect were also state officials or entrepreneurs.
Rudnjev was finally arrested in 2010. year and 2013. sentenced to 11 years in prison for organizing criminal groups, rape, abuse and drug dealings. The cult is officially prohibited 2014.
In prison, 2021 were out of the first place, according to the available information, moved to Montenegro. Former cult members claimed that he planned to gather followers. In October 2024. Montenegrin authorities arrested several members of the “Ashram Shambale” who recorded pornography at the ski resort in Žabljak, but the Rudnjev was not among those arrested.
(Vijesti.ba)
