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Conviction Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship Mediumship, divination, and fortune-telling Moscow, Russia · 2008

Grigory Grabovoi: eleven fraud convictions for paid supernatural claims

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Disposition and response

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Appellate history

  • 2008-10-20

    The sentence was reduced from eleven to eight years and the fine from one million to 750,000 rubles.

  • 2010-05-20

    A prosecution challenge to conditional early release was rejected.

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-proclaimed healer and messianic teacher, founder of the Grigory Grabovoi Foundation

Organization

Grigory Grabovoi Foundation, Teaching of Grigory Grabovoi

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The cited record identifies claimed resurrection and healing powers, paid seminars and individual sessions, and psychological influence on bereaved clients as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is self-proclaimed healer and messianic teacher and founder of the Grigory Grabovoi Foundation.

  • Spiritual healing or treatment
  • Prophecy or divine command

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2008-07-07 · criminal judgment and sentence

    Tagansky District Court of Moscow, Russia. The court convicted Grabovoi on eleven fraud counts and imposed eleven years in prison and a one-million-ruble fine.

  2. 2008-10-20 · cassation appeal

    Moscow City Court, Russia. The court reduced the prison term to eight years and the fine to 750,000 rubles while leaving the fraud convictions in place.

  3. 2010-05-20 · early-release review

    Perm Regional Court, Russia. The court upheld conditional early release after Grabovoi had served half the term; he was released on May 21, 2010.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • claimed resurrection and healing powers
  • paid seminars and individual sessions
  • psychological influence on bereaved clients

Cited record

Sources

official newspaper court reporting judgment report Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 'Healer Grigory Grabovoi found guilty of fraud' (July 7, 2008).

Contemporaneous judgment reporting records eleven fraud counts and the court's finding that Grabovoi used psychological influence, indirect suggestion and distortion of thought processes against victims.

official newspaper court reporting appellate disposition Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 'Moscow City Court reduced the sentence of psychic Grigory Grabovoi' (Oct. 20, 2008).

Contemporaneous appellate reporting records the reduction from eleven to eight years and the continued eleven-count fraud judgment.

court reporting sentence execution Russian Legal Information Agency, 'Grigory Grabovoi released' (May 21, 2010).

The disposition report records the final eight-year term, 750,000-ruble fine, conditional early release and the inclusion of paid purported resurrection among the charged fraudulent services.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis
https://rg.ru/2008/07/07/grabovoy-anons.html Corpus classification: official-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: judgment-report.
Retrieval
2026-07-27 · Retrieval failed
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Source and tier basis
https://rg.ru/2008/10/20/grabovoj.html Corpus classification: official-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: appellate-disposition.
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2026-07-27 · Retrieval failed
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Source and tier basis
https://rapsinews.ru/judicial_news/20100521/250138929.html Corpus classification: court-reporting; evidentiary role: sentence-execution. SHA-256 cd1fcf63595e759e520ac0c74c5c3770d8903bca48e67dbb42d64d113be9a9d0
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2026-07-20 · Preserved
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