New Delhi:
Authorities in Argentina have arrested Russian cult chief Konstantin Rudnev, the founding father of the Ashram Shambala spiritual group, in a human trafficking case. They’re inspecting the potential for a 22-year-old lady and her toddler being coerced right into a scheme that enables him to be granted Argentine citizenship by having the kid born within the South American nation.
Police have arrested over a dozen Russian nationals, together with Rudnev, who’re believed to be a part of the spiritual group, CNN reported.
Pregnant Lady Sparks Arrest
The investigation started after the Russian lady arrived at a hospital within the Patagonian metropolis of Bariloche to present delivery on March 21. She was accompanied by two different ladies.
This was not their maiden go to because the hospital workers noticed them 4 days earlier once they struggled to share how they had been linked to the pregnant girl in addition to their residence within the area.
As per Argentina’s prosecutor and police experiences, the pregnant lady seemed nervous and malnourished, whereas she was not allowed to talk a lot by her two companions.
Quickly after, the medical doctors had been alarmed by the situation of the girl and her companions’ behaviour.
After the kid was born, the 2 ladies requested the hospital authorities to doc the new child’s final title as ‘Rudnev,’ insisting that he was the daddy of the kid, the prosecutor’s report states.
Konstantin Rudnev Arrested
Per week after the incident, the Argentine police managed to find Konstantin Rudnev and arrested him on the Bariloche airport on March 28.
In response to Meduza, a complete of 14 individuals had been arrested as they tried to fly to Brazil. Out of those, eight had been taken into custody on the airport in Bariloche, whereas six others had been arrested in Buenos Aires.
The 2 ladies, who accompanied the mom to the hospital, had been arrested in a raid of their shared dwelling within the area.
Argentina prosecutor Fernando Arrigo believes that the girl might need been a sufferer of the Ashram Shambala. Nevertheless, none of them have been charged with a criminal offense but, as felony investigations begin with an arrest.
His workplace is probing 21 Russian nationals in complete. They’ve been accused of “being a part of a felony organisation that, for the needs of intercourse trafficking and slavery, recruited a 22-year-old lady introduced from Russia,” CNN reported.
Rudnev, a mechanical engineering graduate turned spiritual chief, established the spiritual group in 1989.
He used to inform his followers that he was an “alien from Sirius” and a messiah despatched to the planet to avoid wasting individuals.
Ashram Shambala earlier had its attain in Russia’s 18 areas and practically 30,000 members, with a number of of them worshipping Rudnev after severing ties with household.
Rudnev was sentenced to 11 years in jail by a district courtroom in Siberia in 2013 after being accused of rape, violent sexual acts and drug trafficking.