Grigory Grabovoy
Encyclopedia
Grigory Petrovich Grabovoy (born November 14, 1963 in Kazakhstan
) is a Russia
n psychic who claims the ability to abolish death, resurrect the dead
, cure cancer
and AIDS
, teleport, and pinpoint and resolve at distance mechanical and electronic problems on airplanes, space stations, atomic electric power stations and any other technical constructions. He discusses his abilities in his three volume book The Practice of Control. The Way to Salvation. The goal of the teaching of Grabovoi, according to himself, is passing on the Knowledge of The Lord to the people all over the World in order to save them from the possible global catastrophe, enable each one to reach perfect health, physical immortality, resurrect in their physical bodies everyone who's gone and provide the eternal constructive and harmonious development of the entire mankind.
According to prosecution in 2005, Grabovoy promised grieving mothers of the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis
, that he could resurrect their dead children. The Mothers of Beslan
later accused Grabovoy of an attempt to "zombify" (brainwash) them and accused the Russian secret service of provocation
"aimed at discrediting and getting rid of" the movement.
In a March–April 2007 interview to Larisa Bochanova Susanna Dudieva, leader of Mothers of Beslan
, stated that Grabovoy fell victim of a smearing campaign aimed at directing public attention away from poor handling of the Beslan hostage taking by authorities. Dudieva named some of the media outlets that spread false information, often opposite to what she personally conveyed to them. Among those were Vladimir Vorsobin of Komsomolskaya Pravda
, Dmitri Sokolov of Izvestia
, Alexey Pimanov of the TV show Man and Order.
According to Yelena Milashina of Novaya Gazeta
, authorities arrested Grabovoy on charges of fraud. Milashina wrote that the Ostankino department of Prosecutor General of Russia
threatened to sue a TV show Man and Order for incitement of religious hatred. According to Milashina, Evgeny Saurov, who brought charges against Grabovoy 2 years earlier was prosecuted himself on an unrelated charge. Milashina alleged that Grabovoy was arrested at the behest of Vladimir Putin
.
Grabovoy sued the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda for 1.2 billion roubles (approximately $50 mln) but lost in the Savelovsky Court of Moscow
.
On July 7, 2008 Tagansky Court in Moscow found Grabovoy guilty of 11 counts of large scale fraud
and sentenced him to 11 years of imprisonment. According to the court sentence, Grabovoy organized a pyramid scheme
, franchising
his "followers" to practice the cult provided that they remit 10% of receipts to Grabovoy. The court considered alleged receipts from the relatives of deceased people (an average of 40 thousand Russian roubles for resurrection of the dead) as an outward fraud. Relatives saw neither the resurrected dead nor the money.
A group of Russian advocates including Mikhail Trepashkin
brought an action to institute criminal proceedings against Vladimir Putin
and President Medvedev
in front of the United Nations
, the Hague Tribunal
, the International Criminal Court
for having effected Grigoriy Grabovoy’s criminal prosecution. Grabovoy's early release in May 2010 was appealed by the regional prosecutor office.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
) is a Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n psychic who claims the ability to abolish death, resurrect the dead
Resurrection
Resurrection refers to the literal coming back to life of the biologically dead. It is used both with respect to particular individuals or the belief in a General Resurrection of the dead at the end of the world. The General Resurrection is featured prominently in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim...
, cure cancer
Cancer
Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
and AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
, teleport, and pinpoint and resolve at distance mechanical and electronic problems on airplanes, space stations, atomic electric power stations and any other technical constructions. He discusses his abilities in his three volume book The Practice of Control. The Way to Salvation. The goal of the teaching of Grabovoi, according to himself, is passing on the Knowledge of The Lord to the people all over the World in order to save them from the possible global catastrophe, enable each one to reach perfect health, physical immortality, resurrect in their physical bodies everyone who's gone and provide the eternal constructive and harmonious development of the entire mankind.
According to prosecution in 2005, Grabovoy promised grieving mothers of the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis
Beslan school hostage crisis
The Beslan school hostage crisis of early September 2004 was a three-day hostage-taking of over 1,100 people which ended in the deaths of over 380...
, that he could resurrect their dead children. The Mothers of Beslan
Mothers of Beslan
Mothers of Beslan or Beslan Mothers' Committee is a support and advocacy group of parents whose children were among the more than 365 victims of the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia-Alania. The group is led by chairwoman Susanna Dudiyeva and has nearly 200 members...
later accused Grabovoy of an attempt to "zombify" (brainwash) them and accused the Russian secret service of provocation
Provocation
Provocation and provoke may refer to:* Provocation , a type of legal defense in court which claims the "victim" provoked the accused's actions...
"aimed at discrediting and getting rid of" the movement.
In a March–April 2007 interview to Larisa Bochanova Susanna Dudieva, leader of Mothers of Beslan
Mothers of Beslan
Mothers of Beslan or Beslan Mothers' Committee is a support and advocacy group of parents whose children were among the more than 365 victims of the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia-Alania. The group is led by chairwoman Susanna Dudiyeva and has nearly 200 members...
, stated that Grabovoy fell victim of a smearing campaign aimed at directing public attention away from poor handling of the Beslan hostage taking by authorities. Dudieva named some of the media outlets that spread false information, often opposite to what she personally conveyed to them. Among those were Vladimir Vorsobin of Komsomolskaya Pravda
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Komsomolskaya Pravda is a daily Russian tabloid newspaper, founded on March 13th, 1925. It is published by "Izdatelsky Dom Komsomolskaya Pravda" .- History :...
, Dmitri Sokolov of Izvestia
Izvestia
Izvestia is a long-running high-circulation daily newspaper in Russia. The word "izvestiya" in Russian means "delivered messages", derived from the verb izveshchat . In the context of newspapers it is usually translated as "news" or "reports".-Origin:The newspaper began as the News of the...
, Alexey Pimanov of the TV show Man and Order.
According to Yelena Milashina of Novaya Gazeta
Novaya Gazeta
Novaya Gazeta is a Russian newspaper well known in the country for its critical and investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs....
, authorities arrested Grabovoy on charges of fraud. Milashina wrote that the Ostankino department of Prosecutor General of Russia
Prosecutor General of Russia
The Prosecutor General of Russia heads the system of official prosecution in courts known as the Office of the Prosecutor General of Russian Federation ....
threatened to sue a TV show Man and Order for incitement of religious hatred. According to Milashina, Evgeny Saurov, who brought charges against Grabovoy 2 years earlier was prosecuted himself on an unrelated charge. Milashina alleged that Grabovoy was arrested at the behest of Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...
.
Grabovoy sued the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda for 1.2 billion roubles (approximately $50 mln) but lost in the Savelovsky Court of Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
.
On July 7, 2008 Tagansky Court in Moscow found Grabovoy guilty of 11 counts of large scale fraud
Fraud
In criminal law, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation...
and sentenced him to 11 years of imprisonment. According to the court sentence, Grabovoy organized a pyramid scheme
Pyramid scheme
A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves promising participants payment or services, primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, rather than supplying any real investment or sale of products or services to the public...
, franchising
Franchising
Franchising is the practice of using another firm's successful business model. The word 'franchise' is of anglo-French derivation - from franc- meaning free, and is used both as a noun and as a verb....
his "followers" to practice the cult provided that they remit 10% of receipts to Grabovoy. The court considered alleged receipts from the relatives of deceased people (an average of 40 thousand Russian roubles for resurrection of the dead) as an outward fraud. Relatives saw neither the resurrected dead nor the money.
A group of Russian advocates including Mikhail Trepashkin
Mikhail Trepashkin
Mikhail Ivanovich Trepashkin, is a Moscow attorney and former FSB colonel who was invited by MP Sergei Kovalev to assist in an independent inquiry of the Russian apartment bombings in September 1999 – the atrocities that followed Dagestan war and were one of the triggers for the Second Chechen...
brought an action to institute criminal proceedings against Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...
and President Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is the third President of the Russian Federation.Born to a family of academics, Medvedev graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1987. He defended his dissertation in 1990 and worked as a docent at his alma mater, now renamed to Saint...
in front of the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
, the Hague Tribunal
Hague Tribunal
Hague Tribunal is a popular name for the Permanent Court of Arbitration established in 1899.*Permanent Court of Arbitration, a permanent arbitration court*Permanent Court of International Justice , superseded by:*International Court of Justice...
, the International Criminal Court
International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression .It came into being on 1 July 2002—the date its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of the...
for having effected Grigoriy Grabovoy’s criminal prosecution. Grabovoy's early release in May 2010 was appealed by the regional prosecutor office.
External links
- Personal homepage. Last accessed June 20, 2007. Website of Grabovoy's followers Webpage about Grigori Grabovoi
- Photographs of Grabovoy
- Cult Preys On Beslan’s Bereaved, St. Petersburg TimesSt. Petersburg Times (Russia)The St. Petersburg Times is a weekly, English-language newspaper based in St. Petersburg, Russia. It serves the expatriate community, tourists, and Russians interested in an international perspective on local and world affairs...
, September 27, 2005. Last accessed July 18, 2006. - Cult Leader Takes Heat Off Kremlin, The Moscow TimesThe Moscow TimesThe Moscow Times is an English-language daily newspaper published in Moscow, Russia since 1992. The circulation in 2008 stood at 35,000 copies and the newspaper is typically given out for free at places English-language "expats" attend, including hotels, cafés and restaurants, as well as by...
, September 28, 2005 - Pseudo-Christ promises to raise the Beslan school kids from the dead, PravdaPravdaPravda was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991....
, October 13, 2005 - Cult head 'conned parents with vow to resurrect Beslan dead', The ScotsmanThe ScotsmanThe Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....
, April 7, 2006. Last accessed June 20, 2007. - Capable of Teleportation, KommersantKommersantKommersant is a commerce-oriented newspaper published in Russia. , the circulation was 131,000.- History :The newspaper was initially published in 1909, and it was closed down following the Bolshevik seizure of power and the introduction of censorship in 1917.In 1989, with the onset of press...
, April 7, 2006