On December 20, 2024, Pavel was convicted under the administrative offense of "Distribution, Production, Storage, and Transportation of Information Products Containing Calls for Extremist Activity or Promoting Such Activity." Subsequently, a criminal case was opened against him for sending data on the movement of equipment in Russia during a business trip to the "Charter-97" chatbot in 2022. In 2025, he was convicted of "Assistance to Extremist Activity."
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
