Sergey Ozerov
Workers
1972-04-06
At large
Moscow
Biography
Resident of Arzamas, supporter of Vyacheslav Maltsev, In October 2017, he came to Moscow after learning that Maltsev was calling for participation in the 5 November revolution. Detained late in the evening of 1 November in a rented flat. According to Ozerov, he and other detainees were held for about an hour and a half on the floor with an open balcony stripped to the waist, after which it was discovered that Molotov cocktails had been found in the flat. Ozerov claims that they were planted in the flat. The next day the court arrested Ozerov for 15 days under
Resident of Arzamas, supporter of Vyacheslav Maltsev, In October 2017, he came to Moscow after learning that Maltsev was calling for participation in the 5 November revolution. Detained late in the evening of 1 November in a rented flat. According to Ozerov, he and other detainees were held for about an hour and a half on the floor with an open balcony stripped to the waist, after which it was discovered that Molotov cocktails had been found in the flat. Ozerov claims that they were planted in the flat. The next day the court arrested Ozerov for 15 days under the administrative article on disobedience to the lawful demands of police officers. On 17 November, Ozerov was taken into custody under the criminal case of participation in a terrorist community and preparation of a terrorist act. Four people were detained in the flat, but only three of them appear in the case, the fourth - Vadim Mayorov - disappeared immediately after the detainees were taken out of the flat. Shortly before the detention, Mayorov suggested using weapons and methods of conspiracy on 5 November, in connection with which Ozerov and other defendants in the case consider him a provocateur.
In January 2019, the court granted the prosecutor's office's motion and dropped the charge of participation in a terrorist community. On 22 January, he was sentenced to eight years in a strict regime colony. On 1 November 2025, he was released from prison.