Version: Semakov will go to the SVO before the verdict?

      Yes, according to a source from the "gray house," already on the third or fourth day of his stay in the pre-trial detention center, Semakov was "presented with a request from a narrow circle of the local political Olympus" regarding the gratitude awaiting him, if, of course, he admits guilt without details and specifics about the involvement or interest of his probable "mentors," officially referred to as "accomplices," in receiving a bribe. And this may not significantly and negatively affect the image of the "main party" during the election campaign.

      As the interlocutor clarified, for "silence," 55-year-old Oleg Semakov was allegedly promised "various assistance," in particular, the opportunity to "quietly sit out on the SVO."

      Two "trusting compatriots"

      Interestingly, many Kirov deputies compared today's story of Oleg Semakov with the "exemplary fate" of Dmitry Nikulin, who, blindly trusting "father-general" Vladimir Bykov (initially the head of the city, then the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov region), fled to Georgia to escape the investigation. There, while waiting for the promised help from someone he had called "dear father" before the "escape," he nearly starved to death in a foreign country.

      Upon returning to Kirov, Nikulin, a former city council deputy and retired director of the Central Dispatch Service, reached an agreement with the investigation, and in August 2021, he was sentenced to three years in a "general regime" colony. The court found him guilty of "embezzlement through misappropriation," causing losses to the city budget of more than 34 million rubles.

      And the deputies see the similarity in the fates of Nikulin and Semakov not only in the fact that both are natives of the Zuevsky district, and not in the fact that Oleg Dmitrievich was Nikulin's successor in the CDS, but in that both "trusted the wrong people," for which they congruently paid the price. And the fact that the "first person" publicly called him a "sheep" is, in fact, the possible last help and forgiveness.

      Very fit for service

      Unfortunately, Newsler.ru was unable to even indirectly confirm or deny the information about Semakov's departure to the SVO, except for a "thoughtful phrase" about the guys who do not sleep in the "red house." So far, Kirov athletes who knew Semakov from his time in the Zuevka administration have not approached the editorial office with the question of whether Oleg has already signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense.

      "Oleg always helped sports, but in 2016, Igor Vasilyev (the head of the region before Alexander Sokolov) threw him out of service. He moved to Kirov. There, he was hired as the director of Sports School No. 3 'on the trampoline.' The skiers and jumpers there were barely hanging on. In a very short time, he established order and discipline there," the athletes said.

      As the interlocutor explained, Oleg, as a resourceful and sensible man, and also "submissive" — was ordered to execute — blood from the nose — execute — soon was transferred to "the national economy," where he confidently moved up the ranks in the mayor's office. And he likely ended up in Sokolov's team as a "Vasilyev outcast" and an excellent executor.

      "We don't know how Oleg ended up in 'Vyatavtodor,' although he did not lose contact with the athletes. He started running marathons, yes, those very 42 kilometers, and broke all records here. But it's not about his strength and stubbornness, but about the fact that his life credo is — better to die than to tarnish one's name... That's why we decided he would go to the SVO... Where he will definitely be of much more real use than lying on the bunks — that's the kind of person he is. Not a fool, not a coward, and very resourceful. And he will surely figure out that if he leaves before the verdict is announced, he won't end up in the assault team," the interlocutor recounts.

      When asked how such a "resourceful not fool" got caught in a bribe, the interlocutor could not answer. He only said that in sports, Semakov was not a crook, but maybe there... there was simply nothing to steal.