Yuri Chaika left the post of Prosecutor General. It will be replaced by Igor Krasnov

Yuri Chaika left the post of Prosecutor General of Russia. President Vladimir Putin submitted for consideration by the Federation Council the candidacy of the deputy head of the Investigative Committee Igor Krasnov for this post. This was reported by the Kremlin press service.

The Seagull was dismissed from the post of Prosecutor General "in connection with the transition to another job." What exactly he will do is unknown. It has already been announced that the Federation Council will consider the presidential proposal on January 22.

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The resignation of Yuri Chaika is associated with his advanced age, the interlocutor of the “open media”, close to the Prosecutor General’s Office, is sure. Under the current legislation, the head of the supervisory authority can occupy his post until the age of 70. The Seagull will turn 69 in May 2020, he has been led by the prosecutor's office for the longer all his predecessors - since 2006. During this time, the country's leadership did not have significant claims to him, the newspaper writes.

On December 1, 2015, the Corruption Fund published an investigation about the family of Yuri Chaika, whose son, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, was connected with the wives of the leaders of the Tsapkov gang. Chaika said that the investigation is the businessman William Brauder, who was subsequently announced on TV with an American and British spy.

Who is Igor Krasnov?

Igor Krasnov was born in 1975 in Arkhangelsk. In 2005, he investigated an attempt on Anatoly Chubais, later he was engaged in the business of nationalists from the Born group. In 2009, he was conducted by the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. In February 2015, for some time was the head of the investigative group in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. In May of that year, Krasnov headed a new structure in the Investigative Committee, which included the best investigators of the department. The unit was created from among investigators under the chairman of the TFR Alexander Bastrykin.

In February 2016, Krasnov was considered as a candidate for the Office of the Investigative Committee of the Chechen Republic. However, in the end, Krasnov became the deputy head of the department. Later, the official was called the possible successor to the chairman of the TFR Alexander Bastrykin. In 2017, Krasnov was awarded the title of Lieutenant General of Justice.

“With Igor Krasnov, our lawyers crossed repeatedly, representing the interests of the victims of neo -Nazi affairs. The Born group, who was charged with the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, the judge of the MGS Chuvashov and the anti -fascists of Khutorsky, Filatova, Japaridze. As the head of the investigative group, he left a good and personal professional professional professional professional group. Impression, it can be stated that the cleansing of Moscow from a neo -Nazi armed underground, on which there were dozens of murders, largely the result of Krasnov’s work, ” writes the head of the Agora international human rights group Pavel Chikov.

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