Bastrykin filed a resignation report

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Alexander Bastrykin submitted a resignation report to Vladimir Putin. It is reported by Legal.report with reference to a copy of the document, which, however, does not publish fax. According to the publication, the paper was sent in the last Tuesday, September 20.

RBC confirms this message, citing both a source close to the presidential administration and a copy of the first page of the report. It is reported that the document is envious of the first deputy head of the personnel department of the Investigative Department Andrei Radchenko. The scan of paper in the publication of RBC is also not placed.

Meanwhile, the official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin, in response to the question of the publication, denied the report of Bastrykin’s report. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in turn, told RIA Novosti that he did not know anything about the upcoming resignation of the head of the investigation department.

Information about the imminent departure of Bastrykin from his post appeared on September 14 . It was claimed that the decision to send the head of the TFR in the Kremlin was made after the arrest in mid -July of large officials of his department - the head of the Office of his own security, Mikhail Maksimenko, his Zama Alexander Lamonov and the head of the capital's head of the Investigative Committee of Denis Nikandrov, who is charged with receiving bribes from a thief in the law of Sharro young. Nevertheless, the resignation was postponed for a while after the Duma elections.

It was noted that Bastrykin’s discontent “has matured for a long time”, since the official often attracted excessive attention. In particular, the April article by Bastrykin was mentioned at Kommersant. Authorities , in which he demanded to tighten anti -ethnic legislation and declared a hybrid war of the United States against Russia.

In addition, it was said about the threats of Bastrykin to the deputy chief editor of Novaya Gazeta Sergei Sokolov in 2012, the investigation of the founder of the FBK Alexei Navalny, who in the same year discovered real estate from the official in the Czech Republic , as well as the ties of the head of the SCA with the Tambov criminal group , which the Spanish prosecutor's office announced in 2015.

It was also reported that last year Putin expressed dissatisfaction with Bastrykin's work. He stated that the coordination of the actions of investigators of Russia and Armenia in the investigation of the case of killer soldier Valery Permyakov was organized clumsy.

In addition, it was argued that the investigation department was in a crisis, and Bastrykin relied on unprofessional personnel.

At the same time, it was expressed that the head of the Investigative Committee lost the hardware war with other law enforcement agencies.

Markin on September 15 called on "not to laugh people" by reports of Bastrykin's resignation. At the same time, a few hours before the appearance of such messages, it became known that the official representative of the Investigative Committee himself was fired from his post . On the 21st, Markin confirmed that he resigned .

The likely successor of Bastrykin was previously called the deputy - Major General of Justice Igor Krasnov. He gained fame by investigations of high -profile affairs. In particular, since 2009, Krasnov conducted the case of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. In 2015, for two months he headed the investigative group in the case of the murder of the co-chair of the RPR-Parnas Boris Nemtsov , but then he went to increase, heading the unit, where the best employees work, as stated.

As another possible candidate for the post of new chairman of the TFR , Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko was mentioned. It was noted, however, that its purpose is considered less likely.