
The chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, filed a resignation. It is reported by Legal.report, at the disposal of which a copy of the document turned out to be at the disposal.
The application was submitted on September 20 and is now under consideration by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
In the UK itself, reports RNS, they refused to comment on this information.
On September 14, RBC, citing sources close to the leadership of the SK, the FSB and the presidential administration, reported the upcoming resignation of Bastrykin. According to the interlocutors of RBC, the decision on the dismissal of the head of the UK was made after criminal cases against high -ranking employees of the department.
On September 15, the official representative of the IC Vladimir Markin asked not to “laugh people” with information about the resignation of Bastrykin, doubting the presence of high -ranking sources in the law enforcement agencies near RBC. A few days later, Markin himself filed a resignation report; After that, he again stated that rumors about Bastrykin’s departure were “sucked out of the finger”.
Alexander Bastrykin heads the Investigative Committee since its creation in 2007.