Sergei was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a photograph of Senior Lieutenant Igor Volnich, a traffic police inspector from the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs. According to the indictment, he publicly insulted a government official under special state protection due to the performance of his official duties.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
