The general director of the "basic element" was the former deputy head of the FSB Pechenkin

Valery Pechenkin, the new general director of the Oleg Deripaska Group of Oleg Deripaska, was Valery Pechenkin, who served as deputy director of the FSB in 1997-2000. This was reported by RBC with reference to the Data database.

Pechenkin worked in the KGB - FSB for more than 30 years. As the deputy director of the special services, he oversaw the counterintelligence department.

Pechenkin came to Bazel back in the early 2000s. In recent years, he has been Zamom the former general director of the group Gulzhan Moldazhanova.

The dismissal of Moldazhanova and a number of other top managers of Rusal was announced on May 24. It was stated that this measure is aimed at obtaining the lifting of American sanctions against the company. The next day it became known that Deripaska himself leaves the board of directors of the company.

At the end of April, it was reported that Deripaska decided to reduce his share in the company EN+ - the largest shareholder of Rusala - to a level of lower than 50 percent and leave the board of directors of this company. However, the US Ministry of Finance recalled that the lifting of sanctions is possible only with the complete refusal of Deripaska to control the Rusal.