The Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation asked the Basmanny Court to release Semenov from arrest under a ban on certain actions, since the collection of evidence in the criminal case has been completed, including all witnesses from among Rosmorport employees have been questioned; objects and documents significant for the case were seized, examined and recognized as material evidence; the accused and his lawyer were partially familiar with the materials of the criminal case. 
However, the court considered that the grounds for canceling Semenov’s arrest had not changed and refused to satisfy the investigation’s request. The accused will remain in pre-trial detention until September 11. In the meantime, the investigation must bring final charges to the defendants, draw up an indictment and send the criminal case to court for consideration on the merits.
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. The Supreme Court overturned the acquittal, finding that the general had exerted pressure on the jury. The case was sent for a new trial, and the court sentenced Gaidukov to eight years in prison and deprived him of military knowledge and awards.
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As the Cheka-OGPU learned, the son-in-law of the head of the mining division of Rosatom, Vladimir Verkhovtsev, Igor Semenov, was arrested in a criminal case of giving a particularly large bribe (Part 5 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) to the head of the investment and strategic development department…
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