According to investigators, Semenov fictitiously employed Boldorev at PGRK for the latter’s smooth approval of the project of a mining and processing plant based on the Pavlovskoye lead-zinc ore deposit with a port complex on Yuzhny Island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arkhangelsk region. The top manager of Rosmorport received a bribe in the amount of 1.6 million rubles in the form of a salary. Boldorev has been in pre-trial detention since September 2023.
A PGRK employee questioned as a witness stated that she had never seen Boldorev. The defense, when considering in court the petition for Semenov’s arrest, insisted that other persons were responsible for the implementation of the mining and processing plant project. However, the court considered that these arguments cannot be the subject of judicial review and assessment at this stage of the proceedings.
Semenov’s father-in-law is a former prominent military figure, a retired colonel general. From 2005 to 2010, Verkhovtsev headed the 12th Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense, responsible for nuclear arsenals. He left the headquarters amid a corruption scandal involving former Major General Viktor Gaidukov, who became the first military and civil servant to be fired for concealing income. Subsequently, Gaidukov, accused of bribery and abuse of office, was acquitted by a jury.
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