God Kuzya loves snakes, crocodiles and turtles

The police had to count for several hours the money found in a modest rented apartment of the blind unemployed Andrei Popov. This young man in the dry materials of the investigation passes as Andrey Popov, but for a large number people, he is listed as "God Kuzya", "god", endowed with a unique gift. Investigators consider Popov the leader of a religious sect. A criminal case has been initiated.

Pseudo-priests-sectarians enslave people for money

“God Kuzya” was not ready for the early visit of the operatives: he did not have time to hide tens of millions, which were lying in even bundles in the closet. Neither he, nor his followers, nor his wives could explain the origin of such astronomical sums. Otherwise, it's a miracle. With the advent of operatives, the most devoted adherents began to defend their "god", referring to his disability and poor health.
How many cases are already known when people fell under the influence of scammers who extorted everything from them to the penny, including freedom and moral balance. AT this case also on the face of crime.

The activities of the "god Kuzi" have long been under the gun law enforcement

The novices who fell under the influence of "Kuzi" sold apartments, cars, took out loans and carried everything to Popov, becoming his slaves.
It took the investigators several hours to count all the banknotes. 43 million rubles and 100,000 US dollars - this is the sum of the calculated amounts, the origin of which Popov, an unemployed disabled person, could not explain, and refused to be involved in them. The only clear explanation was that he was not engaged in any subversive activities.

Adepts of the god Kuzi collected round sums a day

Investigators seized a computer and notebooks that could help in the investigation. The self-proclaimed “god” appropriated the money that people donated to build temples and help Donbass.
Severe morals reigned in Kuzi's sex: they were severely punished for any offense. It was impossible to paint, communicate with relatives. The parishioners were cruelly mocked for the wrong word, for eating the wrong amount of food. The slightest violation of one of the points led to a beating, which was recorded on camera. They beat him half to death.
Searches helped to find specific religious literature, as well as several aquariums with the rarest marine fish, snakes listed in the Red Book, turtles and crocodile. The aquarium is not here for beauty: the followers of the “god Kuzi” deify the inhabitants of the aquariums, and also worshiped the dead parrot of their idol, after which Andrey Popov named himself. The founder of the sect has repeatedly come to the attention of law enforcement agencies, and several criminal cases have already been initiated against him.

Searches will be held in 7 more offices of “God Kuzi”

The novices, or more precisely, the slaves of the sect, begged at religious fairs, where they were presented to participate in small rural churches, where they appeared with an offer to "donate for the parish and for the restoration of the temple." Having received such official permission and donated 5-10 thousand rubles, “well-dressed women”, of course, did not appear there anymore. And the permit was used for begging. After the expiration of such a permit, it was copied, the dates were forged. All of these materials are also subject to investigation.

Working simultaneously at dozens of charitable Orthodox fairs, novices brought up to 300,000 rubles per day to the Kuzi treasury.
The materials of the criminal case also included videos of beatings of guilty novices, as well as footage of child pornography.

"God Kuzya" detained by Moscow police WATCH VIDEO

The investigation intends to apply to the Tagansky District Court with a petition for the arrest of sectarian Andrei Popov, who calls himself "God Kuzey", who was suspected of fraud.

God Kuzya arrested

Earlier, during searches, about 43 million rubles were seized from supporters of the sect. and over $100 thousand, specific literature and exotic animals kept in improper conditions.

“On Thursday evening, after an interrogation in a criminal case on fraud, an investigator from the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central District of Moscow detained the main suspect. Today, the investigation plans to go to the Tagansky District Court with a request for his arrest for a period of two months,” Galiakberov said.

God Kuzya detained by police

In addition to the "God Kuzi" himself, a number of his assistants were detained. Searches were carried out in Moscow apartments at seven addresses, during which about 43 million rubles and more than 100 thousand dollars, specific literature and exotic animals were seized. Law enforcement officers also seized computers and notebooks that contained so-called "accounting records". They testify that members of the sect took possession of the money of citizens.

God Kuzya photo

Sectarians are suspected of mass deception of the parishioners of Moscow churches. Pretending to be representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church they extorted money. The scale of fraud was such that criminals received up to 300,000 rubles per day.

God Kuzya and his women

Andrey Popov, born in 1977, who calls himself "God Kuzey", founded a pseudo-Orthodox religious sect in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Popov divides his followers into six categories-circles. The first is occupied by wives, the second and third circles include assistants, a harem and close followers. In the fourth are simple followers. Women from this circle are candidates for the harem. In the fifth category - people who do not yet know about the divinity of Kuzi. Popov sent those who rejected him to the sixth circle.

This is not the first time that the "God Kuzi" sect has come to the attention of the police. In May last year, rare animals were seized from the apartment occupied by adherents of the sect and transferred to the zoo.

God Kuzya arrested photo

The organization gained attention after the attack in 2013 on the TV Center film crew during an attempt to film a story about the activities of the sect with the participation of its leader. As reported by the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for interaction between church and society (OVTSO), the founder of the sect is Andrey Popov, who pretended to be “Bishop Roman”, and later decided to call himself “God”. The Russian Orthodox Church believes that the main income for the members of the sect was brought by participation in Orthodox exhibitions.

Later, in Moscow, during searches of the premises of the “God Kuzi” sect, operatives seized more than 200 million rubles, $150,000 and child pornography.

The main income of the sect was the participation of its members in religious exhibitions. Posing as representatives of, as a rule, a little-known temple or monastery, adepts offered to order all kinds of prayers and rites.

God Kuzya who is this

It is worth noting that Popov himself, even in his youth, was convinced that he was a god, having failed to explain his inhuman genius, which manifested itself from an early age, in another way. Popov himself gives the share of his divinity as a percentage - 82.5%, so he is a "god". The rest falls to the share of man and "love", and of these two "essences" "love" prevails.

The “Sect of the God Kuzi” is a pseudo-Orthodox organization that has been operating since the end of the 20th or the beginning of the 21st century. It refers to destructive sects - organizations that cause harm to society or its members - material, psychological or physical.

The leader of the sect is Andrey Popov, 38, also known as "God Kuzya" or "Kuzma Alekseevich". He declared himself a deity, thanks to whose prayers the members of his sect are still alive.

It has been reported more than once that people are beaten in this sect, and Kuzi himself has many concubines.

God Kuzya Andrey Popov was born

Andrey Yurievich Popov was born in 1977 in Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region. The boy grew up without a father, he was raised by his mother, grandfather and grandmother. The latter instilled in Popov an interest in religion and esotericism. At 14, he declared himself a god. He is visually impaired, although to religious followers he declared himself completely blind, who sees with his heart.

At first glance, a madhouse is crying for "God Kuze". But if you take a closer look, it becomes clear: this is a real scammer, and acting on an especially large scale. Now Kuzya has about two hundred or three hundred followers in his "parish". What are these people? Does he drug them with something, bewitch them? How can one be a “follower of God Kuzi”? Give him an apartment, leave the family under the cousin's wing, be subjected to humiliation and torture there? Probably, these people also need to be tested for sanity.

All this money was at the disposal of Popov. Although he himself assures that the almost 50 million rubles found do not belong to him. But he cannot explain their origin and how they got to his house. The sectarians found discs on which a video was recorded of the beatings of the guilty sectarians. According to the police, not all sectarians parted with their money voluntarily. The detainees are suspected of extorting money and real estate from the “parishioners” of the “god Kuzi” sect by force.

Popov had a favorite parrot named Kuzya, who died one day. According to the leader of the cult, in childhood he was understood only by this bird and the crab, which lived with him for some time. Therefore, having proclaimed himself a god, Popov decided to take the name Kuzya, and at the same time arrange his own menagerie. About a hundred rare species of animals lived in his apartments, including the Australian echidna, crocodile, iguana, monitor lizard, armadillo.

God Kuzya and his wife photo

“I was the God who created Christ. 8 times more than Christ, I have already done.” So says "God Kuzya" - a man who in 6 years has gone from a blessed pseudo-priest to the leader of a sect named after himself and the organizer of a torture chamber at home.

And 5 years ago, the current god, millionaire and collector began as a quiet, humble priest in one of the capital's churches. “He charmed the rector, and he allowed him to serve for two months,” says Tatyana Polchenskaya, who left the sect in 2010. - Until it turned out that Popov's documents were not in order.

It is reported that Popov loved to bathe in money in the truest sense of the word: adherents of his "teaching" prepared bathtubs filled with banknotes for him. In addition, one of the former members of the sect, Olga Frantseva, said that the “god Kuzi” had many wives who left their jobs, families, and gave him property. One of these unofficial wives even rushed to his defense when security forces raided them at 5 in the morning. By the way, the door to the apartment in the Third Nizhnelikhoborsky passage had to be cut by a grinder, since the sectarians completely refused to open it.

On his personal website, Popov is presented as "historian, philosopher, religious scholar, psychologist, poet, writer, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, artist, member of the Union of Artists, composer, singer, biologist, man of encyclopedic knowledge." It is also reported that he graduated from high school with a gold medal, and in 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov. Then he engaged in teaching activities. It is also stated that Popov was a gifted child and at the age of three he knew by heart the works of William Shakespeare and composed his first poems. It is reported that Kuzya is the author of more than 300 books, more than 40 books of poetry, more than 800 pieces of music, and it is also noted that "many times more dictated and not yet published material, thousands of paintings, hundreds of musical works." It is also written that in March 2009 Popov was "awarded the gold Yesenin medal "For fidelity to the traditions of culture and literature"".

According to Popov, he realized himself as a god at the age of 14. I remembered my past lives from Abraham to Tsarevich Alexei, and realized that in this one I was born Jesus. “But I didn’t come just to love and suffer. This is not a version of Christ. This is my version, much stronger and cooler! I've come to judge!.. I'll just crush... break, you know, ruthlessly... At first, a person was broken only psychologically. On the so-called. "otters" discussed every step of the adept, "ripped out" of him all connection with the outside world.

The Russian Orthodox Church yesterday thanked the police for the detention of the founder of the sect Andrei Popov. “Unfortunately, there are always those who use the sincere desire of people to help poor churches, remote monasteries in order to steal money,” the head of the synodal information department Moscow Patriarchate Vladimir Legoyda.

According to him, the sect maliciously used Orthodox paraphernalia to mislead potential donors.

God Kuzya arrested video

God Kuzya detention video

God Kuzya and his slaves video

He is also the "bishop of Roman", he is Muscovite Andrey Popov - he distracted the Russians from Syria, Ukraine, refugees in Europe and other important topics. The journalists could not understand in any way: why did thousands of people believe Popov and continue to believe so far? MK journalist, human rights activist Eva Merkacheva visited god Kuzya in the Butyrka pre-trial detention center and heard from him that he was no longer a god. Now God Kuzya calls himself a home Mamashnik.

Andrey Popov, 36, has been in Butyrka for five days now. The "Messiah" here is not in a brocade cassock, with a large cross around his neck, but in rubber slippers and old sweatpants. How amazingly people change when they change their clothes!

How is his life? Not much different from what other prisoners have. The cell is just over 10 meters, TV, radio and three neighbors (one was detained for a bribe, the second for petty theft, the third for fraud). God Kuzya found a common language with his cellmates right away. They even share with him their food ordered from the restaurant. Intelligent people, they are not rude, but they do not enter into philosophical discussions with Popov (we have seen enough about him on TV).

I have everything thank God, thank God! - Andrey Popov says insinuatingly. His voice is generally so unctuous, bewitching, lulling. - But I will not hide, for me the arrest was a shock. I have never been unaccompanied. I am home. Mommy - there is such a childish expression. I was not ready for the fact that I would be left alone and even in prison ...

We came to “visit” Popov together with PMC member Mikhail Senkevich, a former prison pastor and a deeply religious person.

You assured that you have revelations from above. Didn't they warn you that you'd be behind bars? - asks Senkevich.

There were no explicit warnings. Only dreams, signs... Judging by them, everything should end well.

- Are you sure that your revelations are from God? That they are not from the devil?, the pastor clarifies.

I do not want to tell them now, so that you do not laugh. It is very deeply spiritual. You can't laugh at this.

What are you? Are you ordained? Pentecostal? Wow... Will you help me get to the temple?

(An employee of Butyrka explains that main temple The pre-trial detention center is closed for repairs, and there is a very long queue in another. They take out 15 people there once a week, but in total there are more than 2 thousand prisoners in Butyrka. But we ask you to make an exception for Andrei Popov and take him to the temple as soon as possible).

I really need to be there, you know? I have studied the scriptures all my life, I know the Gospels by heart. I have another question about money. How much does it cost to get to the temple?

- It's free! Is it possible to take money for this?

I don't know... That's what I asked, just in case.

- And why did you give yourself the title of "bishop"? Do you have a church education at all?

I didn't give it. It's so about me. People say that they get grace from communication with me. So it went... But it's not me, not me, not me.

I don’t have a dignity, I don’t have a church education either. Fifteen years ago I went to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, but they said that it is impossible for the blind to study.

- Maybe you want to confess, take communion?

No, not yet. So far, only to the temple. The holiday is coming soon, I need to have time to visit there. It's hard for me. They talk a lot about me. They called it "God Kuzya". This is some kind of mockery. I didn't claim to be a god.

- Well, you said that you have twice as much divinity than Christ ...

Sure sure! Why not 80 times more? Nonsense. All nonsense. All slander. They say that I have a group of followers. I don't even know this concept. Sounds like an organized crime group. And there was just a circle of friends, and it was not organized. We met, drank tea, ate sandwiches - who brought what. We talked on various topics. They liked the way I talk about morality and spirituality. They were drawn to me.

Is there anyone out there who doesn't judge me, who supports me?

- There are some.

I didn't know. I thought no one was left. Tell me, are they already accusing me of something, or are they just suspecting me?

- But you'd better clarify this with a lawyer.

Friends have hired him, but he has not yet come. My friends have always helped me. I wouldn't have lived on my disability pension without them. But I have never been rich. They showed on TV that I have millions. It's all not mine. Animals - yes, mine. I have loved reptiles since childhood. And my friends are theirs.

- Maybe you want to know what happened to them?

I want to know, is it possible to keep me in a pre-trial detention center with such a disease? I don't see you, only outlines.

- There is a list of ailments with which you cannot be taken into custody, your disability of group 2 is not included there.

And it seems to me that I should already have the first group. Vision has worsened, I just haven't checked for a long time. I've had all this since childhood... After all, I survived two resuscitations... It all started with the fact that I was infected with staphylococcus aureus in the maternity hospital, there was cerebral edema, and this affected my eyes. retinal atrophy. The operation was performed as a child. But it didn't help.

- That is, it does not make sense to order books from the prison library?

If only one of the cellmates will read aloud to me. My grandfather read to me as a child. We even counted - more than 10 thousand pages a year were published. I ate books. Studied for one "five". I had home schooling - only the first six months I went to school, because it was very scary, I was especially afraid of changes. And then at Moscow State University at the Faculty of Philosophy, I also studied perfectly.

- They say that you already had four wives ..

Why not a hundred? Look at me. You look carefully. Does it look like I might have a harem?

Well, you can't draw conclusions from appearances. Do you have any things and products for you to transfer to jail?

Yes, I would call her an assistant. Can I write letters? Well, so that the cellmates wrote for me from dictation, and I only put my signature. Is it possible?

- Certainly. You can both send and receive letters. Do you go for a walk? You are entitled to an hour every day.

Yes? I did not know. Will go. Thank you. What else is possible? I write poetry, whole books. Can I have a voice recorder so that I can slander everything, and then pass it on to my friends for decoding?

Unfortunately, all technical means are prohibited. But you can go to the gym or ask for chess to play.

I don't do sports. I love chess very much. But I think my cellmates only play backgammon. But how can I play chess with myself? I'd rather meditate. I know meditation.

“But the church does not really approve of meditation,” the human rights pastor carefully remarks.

And this is not meditation. That's not how I put it. My meditations are just relaxing with prayer. I have never done any meditation. And I didn't serve. There was nothing. I just told people my vision of the world, about goodness. It's just one woman who went to meetings, took offense at me. She found a man among my friends, he became her common-law husband. Then she decided to leave - I'm not holding anyone by force - but he stayed. So she was offended, she began to take revenge on me!

For Butyrka's employees, the "messiah" is a prisoner like everyone else. “We even have a Buddha, even a Christ! The rules of the routine are the same for everyone,” they joke. But seriously, they say that Popov is affectionate with jailers, talks with them almost like with children, agrees with everything, does not argue. They are not afraid to fall under his influence. It is believed that they are immune to any sects.

A large-scale special operation to suppress the activities of the sect was carried out yesterday in Moscow by policemen. Searches with the support of riot police took place at seven addresses - in ordinary apartments there were "offices" of a pseudo-Christian sect led by 38-year-old Muscovite Andrei Popov, who calls himself "God Kuzya."

"During the searches, about 43 million rubles and over 100 thousand US dollars were seized, as well as specific literature and exotic animals kept in improper conditions," Andrey Galiakberov, a Moscow police spokesman, told RG.

The organizer, according to him, of a destructive sect and a number of his closest assistants were detained.

In addition, personal computers and notebooks containing "accounting records" were confiscated, in which the sectarians testified their illegal activities with their own hands. Namely, the fact that, under the guise of a priest, "god Kuzya" and his accomplices collected donations for the restoration of temples. Sometimes they received 300 thousand rubles a day. All this money was at the disposal of Popov. Although he himself assures that the almost 50 million rubles found do not belong to him. But he cannot explain their origin and how they got to his house. The sectarians found discs on which a video was recorded of the beatings of the guilty sectarians. According to the police, not all sectarians parted with their money voluntarily. The detainees are suspected of extorting money and real estate from the "parishioners" of the "god Kuzi" sect by force.

It is reported that Popov loved to bathe in money in the literal sense of the word: adherents of his "teaching" prepared bathtubs filled with banknotes for him. In addition, one of the former members of the sect, Olga Frantseva, said that the "god Kuzi" had many wives who left their jobs, families, and gave him property. One of these unofficial wives even rushed to his defense when security forces raided them at 5 in the morning. By the way, the door to the apartment in the Third Nizhnelikhoborsky passage had to be cut by a grinder, since the sectarians completely refused to open it.

Note that this is not the first time that the sect of "God Kuzi" comes to the attention of the police. In May last year, rare animals were seized from the apartment occupied by adherents of the sect and transferred to the zoo. And in September 2013, a criminal case was initiated under the article “Beatings”. One of the sectarians suffered from the actions of the leaders of the sect.

Then, during the searches, a large amount of money was also found. In addition, the police found a lot of photo and video materials belonging to the category of child pornography from the sectarians.

The Russian Orthodox Church yesterday thanked the police for the detention of the founder of the sect Andrei Popov. "Unfortunately, there are always those who use people's sincere desire to help poor churches and remote monasteries in order to steal money," said Vladimir Legoyda, head of the Synodal Information Department of the Moscow Patriarchate.

According to him, the sect maliciously used Orthodox paraphernalia to mislead potential donors.

Alexander Dvorkin, professor at St. Tikhon Orthodox University:

The name "Sect of God Kuzi" was invented by journalists, Andrei Popov himself never called himself that. At first he pretended to be a priest, then a bishop, and when he was exposed, he proclaimed himself God, because no one requires any documents from God. As in any totalitarian sect, first of all it is the realization of personal complexes and power ambitions of its founder. Everyone wonders how such a clumsy and ugly person could attract so many followers. But look at the leaders of other sects and their teachings, they are no better and no less absurd. I really hope that this arrest will have a logical conclusion in the form of a term for fraud and the creation of an organization that harms health and threatens people's lives. People who are experiencing a stressful state get into sects - this is an axiom. No one is safe from this, anyone strong man there is a moment of weakness when sectarian recruiters can lure him with attention and affection. If a natural disaster or a mass terrorist act occurs somewhere, sectarian recruiters, like vultures, immediately flock to this place, because there are a large number of victims and their relatives.