Maksimov Andrey Yurevich

In the urban-type settlement. On February 27, 2024, at 16:30, the Crimean town of Krasnokamenka detained a 66-year-old local resident, pensioner Andrey Maksimov. Police officers drew up a protocol against the pensioner for an administrative offense under the article on petty hooliganism." "According to law enforcement, Maksimov, being in a public place, 'used crude obscene language, waved his arms, and did not respond to citizens' remarks to stop his illegal actions.'", Maksimov himself, in the protocol of the administrative offense, explained in writing that when he was walking down the street, an unknown man provoked him into a conflict - walking towards him, he did not give way, after which he pushed him for no reason, to which the pensioner began to make remarks, in response the man hit him in the stomach area. At the same time, Maximov himself did not reproduce any violent actions or blows, did not wave his hands. The next day, on 28 February, the judge of the Yalta City Court of the Republic of Crimea Elena Bekenstein sentenced the Crimean to administrative arrest for 13 days." "Upon the expiration of the administrative arrest, on March 10, 2024, he was not released from the IVS where he was serving his sentence, as required, from the moment of his actual delivery to the police station at 16:50. He was released only at 23:53. However, his personal belongings were not returned to him, although he was forced to sign for their receipt. When he went out into the yard of the temporary detention center, there was an armed convoy waiting for him and a Niva car, from which people came out and told him to get in the car. In the Niva they sat for 5 minutes and at the beginning of the first hour of the night they drove towards the village of settlement of Krasnokamenka, where they dropped Maximov off under a streetlight. There was already another car parked there, from which armed police officers got out. He was photographed on a phone, none of the staff introduced themselves. They ordered him to get into the car, after which they drove around Krasnokamenka several times in the car, and then arrived at the 'Massandra' police department. He spent two days there, after which he was again taken to the Yalta City Court. Maximov only learned there that another protocol on an administrative offense for petty hooliganism had been drawn up against him. According to police reports, at 00:10, Maximov, being in a public place, used coarse obscene language, waved his arms, and did not respond to citizens' remarks to stop his illegal actions. March 12, 2024, Judge Irina Timoshenko of the Yalta City Court of the Republic of Crimea sentenced the pensioner to an additional 14 days of administrative arrest. While Andrey Maksimov was serving his sentence, a criminal case was opened against him for confidential cooperation with a foreign state to the detriment of the Russian Federation. No later than March 25, 2024, the Kievsky District Court of Simferopol, Republic of Crimea, sent a pensioner to a pre-trial detention center. Later, the charges against the Crimean were reclassified as treason. According to the investigation, in 2022 the man established contact with Ukrainian special services. At the behest of his handler, he tried to persuade a former law enforcement officer to cooperate with foreign intelligence. The defendant passed the contact information of the former security officer to a representative of the special services and, during personal meetings, persuaded the man to start working for Ukraine, but his activities were thwarted by FSB officers. On October 1, 2025, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea found Andrey Maksimov guilty and sentenced him to 14 years in a strict regime correctional colony and 1.5 years of restricted freedom. The verdict was not appealed and entered into legal force.