Swedish yoga guru, 71, is arrested and 26 women freed from 'deplorable conditions' in France after kidnap and rape probe into sect 'reminiscent of the Mafia' where followers were coerced into 'sexual initiations'
Swedish yoga guru Gregorian Bivolaru, 71, has been arrested in France
He is accused of running a sexually exploitative sect across Europe
26 women, many who were kept against their will, were freed today
A Swedish yoga guru is one of 41 people arrested by French authorities in raids against a controversial sect that has been accused of exploiting young women for sex.
Swedish-Romanian Gregorian Bivolaru, 71, and his group, the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA), are accused of several charges, including holding women against their wills.
The people were arrested in the Paris region and southern France and included other key members of the sect, the source added.
Bivolaru himself was apprehended in a house in Ivry-sur-Seine near Paris.
Some 175 police officers were deployed for the operation, during which 26 women - several of whom were held against their will - were freed.
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