Resident of Sevastopol. In the 1990s, he owned a group of Techcom Ukrainian companies engaged in construction, ship repair, property management and wholesale trade. According to the Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial project, in the late 2000s, the Security Service of Ukraine tried to accuse Gorelikov of the transfer of information to China about the Zubr landing craft utilities. After the annexation of Crimea, Russian authorities dropped the case. However, when Gorelikov's representative visited the FSB office in Sevastopol and successfully retrieved the documents that served as physical evidence he was stopped on his way out of the building and the documents were taken away again. Gorelikov remained in Sevastopol, obtained Russian citizenship, but re-registered the company in Kherson and began to conduct business only in Ukraine. On 24 April 2016, Gorelikov was searched. It became known that a case of espionage was initiated against Gorelikov in connection with the same materials about landing craft utilities that appeared in the dismissed case. The new case was handled by the same law enforcer officers who handled the first case, only that now as FSB officers. The elderly Sevastopol resident was taken into custody and sent to a pre-trial detention facility in St. Petersburg. Gorelikov was also accused of organising abuse of power and smuggling activities by an organised group. Gorelikov was sentenced to 11 years in a strict regime colony under the article on espionage on 7 June 2018, the court acquitted him under the article on organising abuse of power, and stopped the prosecution under the article on organising smuggling activities. According to Novaya Gazeta, while in the colony Gorelikov slapped a warden who insulted him, after which activists from among the convicts on behalf of the administration crushed his hand. The colony is located close to an aluminium plant that generates harmful chemical emissions, which severely affects the convict's health. By the time of his imprisonment, Gorelikov had undergone heart surgery and treatment for kidney cancer, after which he was found to have stage III malignant neoplasms and required constant medical supervision and regular medication.