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==History==
In the 1980s Arno Wollensak was a follower of [[Rajneesh]], eventually starting his own group.<ref name="madre">{{cite web |title=Mi madre huyó de Uruguay |url=https://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/mi-madre-huyo-uruguay.html |website=El Pais |accessdate=13 April 2020 |language=spanish}}</ref> The group lived in Germany, Austria, France and Portugal before relocating to Belize.<ref name="madre" />

Reports of sexual abuse of minors within the cult lead to a police investigation.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Meredith |first1=Katharina |title=Psychoterror im Dschungel |url=http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/europa/pPsychoterror-im-Dschungelp/story/22819920 |website=Tages-Anzeiger |accessdate=13 April 2020 |language=de}}</ref> In 2007 Wollensak failed to appear in court. He and Ravell fled to Uruguay using forged Surinamese documents in 2008.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}} The case was transferred to the German [[Federal Criminal Police Office (Germany)|Federal Criminal Police]] in 2014. Wollensak and Ravell were arrested by police in Uruguay and brought to [[Montevideo]] on 12 June 2015.<ref name="BKA">{{cite web |title=Zielfahndungserfolg des Bundeskriminalamtes. Festnahme von zwei deutschen Staatsangehörigen in Uruguay |url=https://www.bka.de/DE/Presse/Listenseite_Pressemitteilungen/2015/Presse2015/150702_ZielfahndungserfolgUruquay.html |website=www.bka.de |accessdate=13 April 2020}}</ref>

A request for his extradition to Germany was made, but denied by an Uruguay court due to statute of limitations. Wollensak was then released.<ref>{{cite web |title=Er war ein gesuchter Sex-Verbrecher - Deutscher Sektenchef in Uruguay ermordet |url=https://www.bild.de/news/ausland/sekten/deutscher-sekten-chef-in-uruguay-ermordet-47577386.bild.html |website=bild.de |language=de |date=31 August 2016}}</ref> He was found murdered in [[Uruguay]] August 28, 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=Arno Wollensak, el líder de una secta alemana que apareció muerto en La Floresta |url=http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/cadaver-floresta-lider-espiritual-secta-alemana.html |website=El Pais |accessdate=13 April 2020 |language=spanish}}</ref>