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Yevseev Andrei Aleksandrovich

Date of birth: April 10, 2001 (25 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  275.1 ; 159 ч. 4
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  7 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  February 10, 2025
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 16, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Yevseev Andrei Aleksandrovich, born April 10, 2001, citizen of Russia, lived in Nizhny Novgorod, former contract serviceman in Yekaterinburg.

On September 21, 2023, he was sentenced under 6 episodes of Article 159, Part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud committed by an organised group or on an especially large scale or resulting in the deprivation of a citizen’s right to housing”) to 5 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. On February 10, 2025, he was sentenced under Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian (“Cooperation on a confidential basis with a foreign state, international or foreign organisation”) to 7 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony

Deprived of liberty since March 29, 2023.

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