Drugs, Orgies and Violence: Former Assistants of Muntyan Describe Life with the Pastor of "Vozrozhdenie"

Former members of Vladimir Muntyan's Vozrozhdenie spiritual centre accused him of beatings, drug use, abuse and orgies. This is reported by TSN.Tyzhden.

Former church accountant Lina Slobodenyuk, a worker at the pastor's sister's house, his assistant Anna Besonova and assistant Pavel Radionov, as well as Radionov's wife Anna, who headed the Vozrozhdenie church TV channel, spoke about Muntyan's "escapades".

Muntyan is a self-proclaimed apostle of his own church. Before becoming one, Vladimir Mirchavich Muntyan served three years in a special-regime colony in Kryvyi Rih.

For the last 5 months he has been preaching from Thailand, on the island of Koh Samui. He brought his closest circle to four villas he acquired there. Mostly these were women. 

"There was not a single member of the team whom he did not beat at least once. Everyone got it. It was as if there was a queue for who was next. And then my turn came," says former Vozrozhdenie church accountant Lina Slobodenyuk.

Lina was a frequent guest in Thailand; once, in Kyiv, in the circle of family and pastors, Muntyan unexpectedly accused her of embezzling money, for which he then beat her.

Muntyan's interpreter spoke about orgies at his villas. Her duties also included injecting him with nalbuphine (an opioid analgesic) so that he could go on air after another dose of cocaine. She said he forced others to take drugs as well.

"All the drugs he took had such an effect on him that on the one hand he began to develop megalomania, and on the other, persecution mania. He did it openly, showed it, and made people try this drug. He calls it (cocaine) an energy drink," says the woman.

Muntyan's assistant Besonova stated that the pastor began using cocaine in 2018. He beat her several times after she asked him to stop taking drugs. 

It is reported that about two months ago police visited one of Muntyan's villas in Thailand. The residents were accused of violating migration policy and quarantine rules. Cocaine was also found at the villa. Muntyan's operator Alexander Medvedev took the blame. The entire team sat in prison for a month and a half, after which they were deported for life. Only Alexander remained there. The pastor has now returned to Ukraine.