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The group, led by Anatoly Akimov and Gennady Shipov,[3] began the research as the state-sponsored Center for Nontraditional Technologies. However, the group disbanded in 1991 when their research was exposed as a fraud and an embezzlement of government funding by Ye. B. Aleksandrov; yet, for unknown reasons Akimov and Shipov received financing for torsion field research from the Russian Ministry of Science from 1992 to 1995 and from the Russian Ministry of Defense from 1996 to 1997, and continued further secretly,[2] as a private enterprise called The International Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics (later called UVITOR).[4] UVITOR is operating from Bangkok, Thailand since 2005 and appears to offer medical products and services on its premise.[5] The torsion field research has secured support from a number of prominent Thai academics and the national funding agency.[6][7]

Presently championed outside of established scientific research due to its lack of scientific recognition, the theory has been used to proclaim faster-than-light travel (FTL), extra-sensory perception (ESP), homeopathy, levitation, and other paranormal phenomena, and has been used to provide a rationale for the purported functioning of miracle cures and similar products.