Semenyaka Alexey

Semenyaka Alexey

Biography

Alexey Semenyaka is a citizen of Ukraine, although the Runet ID website says that he was born in Moscow. At the same time, the ICT Online website claims that Semenyaka is a native of Kharkov (Ukraine).

Semenyaka was born in 1972, in 1994 he graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov (Moscow State University).

He began his career in 1997 as a system administrator in the Moscow Internet provider Kronix Plus (brand RiNet), from where he left in 2001.

Then, until 2004, Semenyaka held various engineering positions in the Ratmir holding and in the Russian representative office of the German bank Deutsche Bank.

In 2007 (according to Runet ID - in 2004) Semenyaka came to Megafon, where he worked until 2012. Here he held various posts, including the post of IP network architect and head of network development and data center in the head office of the telecom operator.

The next step in Semenyaki's career was Yandex. The Russian IT giant accepted him into its staff in 2012 as the head of the network development and operation department.

In 2014, Semenyaka became the executive director of Qrator Labs, an information security company. Since 2016, he has been working at RIPE NNC.

2016: Qrator Labs employee becomes RIPE NCC representative in the post-Soviet space

Alexey Semenyaka, executive director of Qrator Labs, became a representative of RIPE NCC in the post-Soviet space. In this regard, the position of an employee in Qrator Labs and its area of ​ ​ responsibility have changed. Alexey Semenyaka is now responsible for the development of the company outside the countries of the former USSR.

Alexey Semenyaka, executive director of Qrator Labs, received the position of one of the two representatives of RIPE NCC in the post-Soviet space. Its responsibilities include interacting on technological issues with any stakeholders on behalf of the Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC). It is one of the five regional Internet registrars in the world that distribute IP addresses and other resources, register their owners, coordinate the interaction of various companies and organizations, if it concerns the operation of the global Internet.

2021: Deprivation of residence permit and expulsion from Russia

In June 2021, the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) announced the exposure of an agent of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). According to Interfax, it turned out to be Alexei Semenyaka, a representative of the RIPE NCC regional Internet registrar in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He used to work at Yandex and Megafon.

According to the FSB, Semenyaka conducted intelligence and subversive activities, which "for a long period of time were coordinated by Ukrainian counterintelligence officers." FSB representatives said that "as a result of the rapid response and urgent measures taken by the FSB, Semenyaka did not manage to damage Russia's external security."

Semenyak closed entry to the territory of Russia. It will be valid for 25 years. June 3, 2021 Semenyaka left Russia. Along the way, he was canceled a residence permit received earlier in Russia.

According to Interfax, representatives of the FSB, Semenyak, working for the SBU, had several curators. This is the senior operative for especially important cases of Division 2 of Division 1 of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Field of Information Security (DKIB) of the SBU, Senior Lieutenant Timur Gasymov, as well as the deputy head of Division 2 of Division 1 of the DKIB SBU, Lieutenant Colonel Igor Chernyak.

According to Interfax, FSB officers seized "gadgets with messages from SBU officers" from Alexei Semenyaki. In them, they asked for help in resolving their working issues, "with the ultimate goal of damaging the security and interests of Russia."

Semenyaka did not deny his connection with the SBU. He told the FSB that he maintained a "long relationship" with its representatives and added that he provided them with "diverse consulting assistance."

The Russian special services claim that while operational-search measures were carried out against Semenyaki, unidentified individuals tried to "remotely destroy data from his mobile device." Representatives of the FSB are sure that the hackers carried out their operation from Kiev (the capital of Ukraine). In their opinion, this was an attempt to protect Semenyaka by his curators from the Ukrainian special services. An attempt to delete data was stopped by the^[1].

Representatives of the FSB told Vesti that the tasks that Semenyaka received from Ukrainian curators were reduced to receiving "intelligence information for use in anti-Russian interests." They also claim that Semenyaka did not receive money for his work, and called him an "ideological agent."

"To some extent, this is the most dangerous category, since it is not guided by mercantile considerations, but acts on the basis of its personal principles and beliefs, which may not change for a long time," FSB officers told the publication.

According to Vesti, Semenyaka was deported to Kiev. However, instead, Russian security forces could bring a criminal case against him under Art. 276 of the Criminal Code (espionage).

"The situation was developing very rapidly, and the FSB managed to reach a foreign agent even before he managed to collect and transmit information that would harm us. Formally - yes, in his actions there is a corpus delicti provided for by article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. But due to the fact that they managed to work ahead of schedule, Semenyak was precisely closed entry for a period of 25 years. In addition, he was canceled a previously received residence permit in the Russian Federation, "the FSB explained.

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