In 2022, a verdict was passed in Orel in a case of theft during the repair of the Red Bridge. Then the director of the contractor company Remspetsmost, Evgeniy Podrezov, was sent to jail for 4.5 years. He entered into a pre-trial agreement, but not all of his testimony was allowed to proceed.
In total, according to investigators, about 76 million rubles were stolen—the money was transferred to a one-day company and cashed out. Another person involved was put on the wanted list in the same case, and “unidentified persons from among the administration employees” remained unidentified.
As the Cheka-OGPU learned, the personal intervention of Governor Andrei Klychkov was to blame, at whose request the local security forces “buried” the criminal case. However, Moscow became interested in the case and FSB officers recently contacted the wanted businessman. He was offered guarantees and, as part of cooperation with the special services, the fugitive returned, giving exhaustive testimony against Sergei Lezhnev. The latter is a close and confidant of Governor Andrei Klychkov. The adviser was involved in both PR and finances for his boss. Now, thanks to the testimony, the investigation considers Sergei Lezhnev to be the organizer of the scheme, who could personally steal about 30 million rubles.
Previously, the founder of the contractor company, Alexander Molchanov, could become an accuser. It is known that in 2021 he was put on the international wanted list in connection with this criminal case.
At the end of last week, a landing party of operatives from the Central Asia FSB landed in Orel, who yesterday overtook Sergei Lezhnev in Belgorod (lately he lived there since his personality, to put it mildly, was not popular in Orel) and brought him to Orel, where he was officially detained by fraud case.
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