Overview
- Svetlana Lada-Rus (Peunova) was convicted by the Neftegorsky District Court of creating organizations that infringed on citizens’ rights, large-scale fraud, and causing grievous harm by negligence.
- The court set an eight-year term in a general-regime penal colony, according to the regional prosecutor’s office.
- Prosecutors say she led groups they describe as destructive communities that pressured followers to abandon civic duties and used rituals to exert influence.
- Case materials detail victims’ property losses, including an office and a Nissan vehicle allegedly obtained through deception.
- Her movement and party were previously banned as extremist and she was labeled a foreign agent in 2023, while several associates were sentenced in late October in related prosecutions.