Putin made large -scale rearrangements in law enforcement agencies

Vladimir Putin, by his decree of April 30, made more than two dozen personnel permutations among law enforcement agencies. As Reuters notes , these permutations are among the largest in recent years.

In particular, the First Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Vasily Piskarev and the deputy chairman of this department Yuri Nyrkov were removed from his posts. At the same time, Igor Krasnov was appointed deputy chairman of the Investigative Committee. Last spring, Krasnov led the investigative group engaged in the murder of the co-chair of the RPR-Parnas Boris Nemtsov, but already in May 2015 he went to increase , heading one of the departments of the department.

Earlier, Krasnov headed the investigative group in the case of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. The accusation in court stood. Meanwhile, one more thing Krasnov - about the attempt on the oligarch Anatoly Chubais - fell apart in court. The jury twice endured the backward colonel of the GRU Vladimir Kvachkov and the three other accused of an acquittal of the verdict; The second time the verdict was confirmed by the Supreme Court.

Two heads of regional Federal Penitentiary Service also lost posts: Igor Klimenov in Moscow and Sergey Khudorozhov in the Sverdlovsk region. Khodorozhkov was repeatedly criticized by human rights activists in connection with the systematic use of torture in the colonies of the region .

In addition, the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the annexed Crimea - the police chief of the region, Dmitry Neklyudov, was among the resigned. Before the capture of the Crimea, Neklyudov was an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, and after the annexation changed the oath and went over to the side of the aggressor.