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Yeliseyev Danil Alekseyevich

Date of birth: August 12, 2004 (21 years old)
citizenship: Россия
City of residence: Yekaterinburg
Occupation: студент/ка; торговля и продажи
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Date of arrest:  September 5, 2023
Sentence:  7 лет лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима, из них 4 года в тюрьме, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  May 19, 2025
Current location:  Remand Prison No. 2, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Sverdlovsk Oblast

Danil Yeliseyev was a college student and working as a cashier at a supermarket. His acquaintance, Klimin, contacted him and offered to make money by setting fire to relay cabinets. Yeliseyev delegated the task to his debtor, Nikita Sukhorukov. A forensic psychiatric examination revealed Danil's individual psychological characteristics: instability of motivation, frivolous self-assessment, and an overly idealized view of mutual assistance. For plotting a terrorist attack by an organized group, the court sentenced Yeliseyev to 7 years in a maximum-security penal colony, with the first four years to be served in prison.