Ivan Tkachev, who headed the division in July 2016, may leave it. The option of appointing Tkachev to serve in one of the regional FSB is being considered.
The former head of the 6th service of the FSB’s own security department, a longtime associate of General Oleg Feoktistov , Ivan Tkachev, has too many ill-wishers in Lubyanka, told NT two sources
in the law enforcement system . Tkachev is still a colonel, notes one of the interlocutors, implying that in his position he should be a general. According to NT interlocutors, a compromise solution is being discussed - to send Tkachev to the region with the appointment of a general.
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