Egor is a former investigator, worked for the Investigative Committee for more than six years, dealt with economic crimes. In 2019, he quit, took up sports analytics and planned to move to IT.
On June 11, 2021, he was detained in a criminal case initiated under the article “Active participation in actions that grossly violate public order,” and on October 8 of the same year, he was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
The basis for the charges were photographs from the Marches of August 23 and 30, 2020 in Minsk, which were given to the security forces by a man who had previously been involved in a case investigated by Yegor himself.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
