Purge in the districts

The new Moscow prosecutor has assembled his team

The new prosecutor of Moscow, Yuri Semin, as Vremya Novostey learned, recently completed a personnel purge in the area entrusted to him. He himself took office on July 18, as part of the personnel reform initiated by the new Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. Like other associates of the head of the supervisory authority, he immediately continued work to renew the ranks of the prosecutor. As a result, over the past two months in Moscow, the leadership of the city prosecutor’s office itself has been significantly updated and prosecutors in six (out of ten) administrative districts of the capital have been replaced.

Back in August, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika approved Vyacheslav Rosinsky, who had previously worked as a “simple” deputy prosecutor of the capital, to the post of first deputy prosecutor of Moscow. He received this promotion as a “high-class professional.” Following him, two other new deputy prosecutors of the city were appointed - Vyacheslav Kozlov and Vladimir Ponevezhsky. Mr. Kozlov came from the Prosecutor General's Office, where he headed one of the zonal departments of the Main Directorate for Supervision of the Procedural Activities of the Prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Drug Control Service, the Federal Customs Service and Justice. Mr. Ponevezhsky previously worked as the prosecutor of the Western District (ZAO) of the capital.

Stanislav Ivanov, who previously held the post of deputy prosecutor of the Presnensky district, became the new prosecutor of the closed joint-stock company. Meanwhile, the former prosecutor of the Eastern District (VAO) Valery Uvarov was less fortunate. Back in the summer, he was demoted and transferred to the Tushinsky District Prosecutor's Office as a senior assistant prosecutor. However, he was soon transferred to the position of prosecutor of one of the supervisory departments of the city prosecutor's office. “Uvarov was initially asked to leave the law enforcement system altogether, but he refused. Then he was offered a significant reduction,” said our source in the Prosecutor General’s Office. The former prosecutor of the South-Eastern District, Boris Kravtsov, became the new prosecutor of the Eastern Administrative District. In turn, his successor in the South-Eastern Administrative District was the former prosecutor of the Kuzminsk interdistrict prosecutor's office, Anatoly Chubenko.

According to our data, a proposal to transfer to an unequal position was also received by the former prosecutor of the North-Western District (NWAD) Valery Samoilov. “Since he was only offered the post of assistant district attorney, he refused and resigned of his own free will,” the source said. Vyacheslav Pustokhin, who once worked as the prosecutor of Zelenograd, became the new prosecutor of the North-West Administrative District. In 2004, he “didn’t work out well” with Anatoly Zuev, then newly appointed prosecutor of Moscow, and submitted a resignation letter of his own free will. However, according to our source, Yuri Semin considered the dismissal of Mr. Pustokhin unfair and has now returned his colleague.

And already on September 25, as Vremya Novostei learned, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika signed an order for two more resignations of district prosecutors in Moscow. The prosecutor of the Northern District (NAD) Evgeniy Zalegin and the prosecutor of the Southern District (SAD) Alexander Shtukaturov lost their seats. Both have held these positions since the late 90s. “They are now on leave, and after leaving they will be immediately informed of the order for their dismissal due to their length of service and reaching retirement age,” the source said. “Vacancies for these positions are still open, and Yuri Semin should submit candidates in the near future.”

The personnel purge has not yet affected the district prosecutors of the capital. “In general, the leadership of the city prosecutor’s office is satisfied with their work,” noted our source. - Now Mr. Semin outlined to them his vision of fruitful cooperation. And by the end of the year, at the final meeting, all district prosecutors will have to present a plan for further work. Most likely, issues regarding the promotion, demotion or dismissal of employees of this rank will be resolved after the final meeting.”

Personnel changes simultaneously continued in the Moscow region. The other day, Yuri Chaika signed an order appointing senior justice adviser Alexander Mokhov to the post of deputy regional prosecutor. Previously, he headed the investigation supervision department in this department. Now Mr. Mokhov will oversee issues of ensuring the participation of prosecutors in the consideration of criminal cases by courts, supervision of the implementation of laws in transport and customs authorities, as well as issues of civil defense, emergency situations, and mobilization work.

Ekaterina KARACHEVA