According to sources at the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, Igor Krasnov (Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation) has eyed the position of Deputy Chairman of the Third Cassation Court of the Russian Federation, head of the criminal cases panel, for Sergei Zhukovsky, one of the most corrupt figures in the law enforcement bloc who was dismissed from office by the Leningrad Region Prosecutor General. With the prospect of later appointing him to head the "Third Cassation Court." The transfer of another of Krasnov's protégés from the Prosecutor General's Office to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, Sergei Bochkarev, appears to be a non-starter. His candidacy has been rejected by the Presidential Administration.
According to the source, the FSB has given Zhukovsky a negative character reference, and the final decision now rests with the relevant commission of the Presidential Administration. The situation is exactly the same as with the former head of the Main Civil and Judicial Department of the Prosecutor General's Office, Sergei Bochkarev (our project was the first to report on his possible transfer to the Supreme Court). Bochkarev even passed the judicial exam, but the FSB gave him a negative evaluation. According to our sources, Krasnov failed to override this veto, and the Russian Presidential Administration did not approve Bochkarev's appointment to the Supreme Court.
The most interesting thing in all of this is the FSB's motivation. Corruption isn't the issue; it's a positive factor in appointments. According to a source, the FSB is churning out negative evaluations out of fear that the entire prosecutorial "gay lobby" will migrate to the judicial system.
In 2019, our project detailed how, historically, the Prosecutor's Office has the largest and most powerful "gay lobby" not only in the entire security sector, but among all Russian agencies.
We provided the following "sketches" back then. "There's no other place like the prosecutor's office, where there's a gigantic gay lobby. Even show business doesn't care. The system for promoting young men willing to have relationships with other men at work has been in place for a long time. You could see young assistants in district prosecutor's offices wooing older colleagues, thus climbing the career ladder. The "lucky" young prosecutors could end up in a locked office with one of Moscow's deputy prosecutors. And then they'd begin to climb the career ladder. And if you became a favorite of one of the deputy prosecutors general, your career seemed simply fabulous."
