In Gelendzhik, on March 18 at 18:55, an accident occurred in the Tonkiy Mys area: Mercedes exceeded the speed limit and crashed into a tree. A 23-year-old passenger died. The alleged culprit of the accident was the 23-year-old son of the ex-chief of police of Krasnodar and a deputy of the City Duma Alexander Semenovwhich in 2017 knocked down five road workers on Dzerzhinsky Street in the regional center.
We tell what is known about the accident near Gelendzhik and its culprit.
Drunk man crashed into a tree
According to preliminary data, the 23-year-old driver of a Mercedes Benz GL 500 car on March 18 exceeded the speed limit on a roundabout, left it and crashed into a tree. The driver and his 23-year-old passenger were injured in the crash. The girl was taken to intensive care, where she died within three days, the 93.RU portal was told in the traffic police propaganda department of the regional traffic police.

As it became known to the editors of 93.RU, the deceased was a 23-year-old graduate of the law faculty of KubSU Pauline. Behind the wheel was her young man and former classmate Alexander Semenov. This information was confirmed by several sources in law enforcement agencies.
Polina studied at the Faculty of Law, was an excellent student. After graduating from the bachelor’s degree, she entered the magistracy, where she studied in her second year. In mid-February, the student just turned 23 years old, she already worked as an assistant lawyer. Polina is from Krasnodar, she has an older sister. She met Alexander while studying at the law faculty. Young people met for a long time, their relationship could be called difficult, classmates admitted.
The couple went to Gelendzhik to relax for the weekend – Semenov’s parents have real estate in the resort, so he often went there. Relatives think that she truly loved Alexander – this makes them even more painful from his behavior, attempts to hide and evade punishment, the girl’s friends said.
The driver and his 23-year-old passenger were hospitalized. It was not possible to save the girl’s life, the ministry said in a statement. At the same time, the police did not say anything about the fact that the culprit of the accident was in a state of intoxication. Also, the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not mention the fact of initiating a criminal case – the relevant resolution is at the disposal of the editors.
On the fact of the accident, a criminal case was opened under paragraph “a” part 4 of Art. 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of traffic rules, negligently resulting in the death of a person). The progress and results of the investigation are under the control of the Gelendzhik prosecutor’s office, the press service of the regional prosecutor’s office reported.

According to the 93.RU editorial source, the young man was in a state of intoxication at the time of the accident.
Not the first accident
On June 29, 2017, early in the morning, a 17-year-old Krasnodar without a license knocked down road workers near Dzerzhinsky and Talalikhina streets. A teenager driving a parental Land Rover ignored warning signs about road repairs and crashed into a Gazelle. The foreign car burned down from the impact, but the driver managed to get out of the car.
Then, as a result of the accident, five workers were injured, one of them, a 40-year-old man, died. It is also known that the teenager was drunk. Later it turned out that the culprit was Alexander Semenov – the son of the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Krasnodar Alexander Semenov and the ex-deputy of the City Duma Olga Semenova.

Semenov Jr. in November 2018 was found guilty under Part 4 of Art. 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of traffic rules, negligently resulting in the death of a person). The guy was sentenced to three years in prison in a colony-settlement with the deprivation of a driver’s license for one year.
Semenov’s classmates told 93.RU that the guy visited couples all the time, despite the verdict. For a while he went to classes with a bracelet on his leg – probably at that time he was under house arrest. Young people believe that Semyonov did not actually serve his sentence.
What is known about the Semyonov family?
The parents of the 23-year-old guy are the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Krasnodar, Alexander Semenov, and the ex-deputy of the City Duma from United Russia, Olga Semenova. The woman also served in the police before, has the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the publication of the income statement for 2019, Semenov became the richest deputy in the City Duma, earning 32.8 million rubles.
She owned four residential buildings, five apartments, six land plots and other real estate. Also, a GAZ bus, Mercedes-Benz cars, two Land Rovers, a Toyota and a Dongben motorcycle tricycle were registered to the woman.
Colonel Alexander Semenov Sr. from 2003 to 2011 headed the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Krasnodar. He was publicly dismissed at one of the meetings by the ex-governor Alexander Tkachev. This coincided with the reform of the police:
“I think that in the near future we will find the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate, appoint a new one, definitely from another city, so that he is not connected with business, or with crime, or with anyone,” quoted the governor “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”.
The car Mercedes Benz GL 500, on which Semenov Jr. caused an accident near Gelendzhik, is registered to Olga Semenova. The car is insured by her LLC “Europe-group”.