Bastrykin Alexander Ivanovich Investigative Committee. Injured during performance. The most high-profile cases of Alexander Bastrykin
MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. By his decree, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, the highest rank - General of Justice of the Russian Federation.
Decree "On assignment military ranks senior officers, special ranks of senior command personnel and highest special ranks" was published today on the Internet portal of legal information.
This is the highest rank provided for by the law “On the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.” Until now, Alexander Bastrykin had the rank of Colonel General of Justice.
62-year-old Alexander Bastrykin has headed the Investigative Committee since its formation - first as the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation (since June 2007), and then (since 2010) - the independent Investigative Committee of Russia.
Alexander Bastrykin. Biography
Born on August 27, 1953 in Pskov. Father, Ivan Ilyich, native Krasnodar region, comes from a family of Kuban Cossacks. Member of the Finnish and Great Patriotic War, naval officer. Mother, Evgenia Antonovna, was born in Luga, Pskov region, and during the siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) she worked at a defense enterprise. Since 1943, she fought as part of the combat units of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet and took part in the battles for Königsberg.
In 1975 he graduated from Leningrad State University. A.A. Zhdanov (Leningrad State University; now St. Petersburg State University). He studied with Vladimir Putin and was the head of the group.
Doctor of Law, Professor (1994). In 1987 he defended his dissertation on the topic “Interaction between domestic and international law in the field of Soviet criminal proceedings."
After graduating from the university, he was assigned to the internal affairs bodies of Leningrad, where he worked as a criminal investigation inspector, then as an investigator.
Member of the CPSU since 1977 (remained a member of the party until its ban in August 1991).
In 1977-1980 studied at the graduate school of the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University, was a teacher at the department of criminal procedure and criminology of the law faculty.
In 1980 he was elected secretary of the Leningrad State University Komsomol Committee, in 1982 - secretary of the Leningrad City Komsomol Committee. In 1983-1985. - Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Komsomol Committee.
In 1985-1987 - Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Leningrad State University. In 1986 he was elected deputy secretary of the university party committee.
From 1988 to 1991, he headed the Leningrad Institute for the Improvement of Investigative Workers at the USSR Prosecutor's Office, and was the head of the department of investigative tactics.
In 1992 - Head of the Department of Law at the Humanitarian University of Trade Unions in St. Petersburg.
In 1992, he was appointed rector of the St. Petersburg Law Institute. At the same time, in 1995-1996. — Professor, Head of the Department of Transport Law at St. Petersburg State University of Water Communications.
From 1996 to 1998 - assistant to the commander of the North-Western District of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for legal work.
1998-2001 - Director of the North-Western branch of the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg.
In 2001, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Federal Directorate of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the Northwestern Federal District (NWFD), and in 2005 - Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Justice for the Northwestern Federal District. In 2006, he headed the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District.
By decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 6, 2006, Yuri Chaika was appointed Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
In 2007, the Prosecutor's Office was formed at the Prosecutor's Office. On June 22, 2007, the Federation Council approved the candidacy of Alexander Bastrykin for the post of chairman of the UPC. In connection with the formation of the apparatus of the new structure, until September 2007 he was the acting head of the committee.
Since September 2007 - First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.
After the creation of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia on the basis of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin was entrusted with the duties of the chairman of the committee (decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 4, 2010).
On January 14, 2011, he was appointed Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia. He took up his duties the next day, January 15.
First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office, in office since September 2007. From October 2006 to September 2007, he served as Deputy Prosecutor General. In June-October 2006, he was the head of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District. In 2001-2006, he headed the department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the Northwestern Federal District. He was the director of the North-Western branch of the Russian Legal Academy and the rector of the St. Petersburg Law Institute. Doctor of Law, Professor.
Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin was born on August 27, 1953 in Pskov. In 1975, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University (LSU). Bastrykin was the head of the group in which Vladimir Putin, who served as President of the Russian Federation from 2000-2008, studied. Actively engaged social work, joined the CPSU (remained a member of the party until its ban in August 1991). After graduating from university, he was assigned to the internal affairs bodies, where he worked until 1979 (according to other sources, until 1977) as a criminal investigation inspector and investigator.
In 1977-1980, Bastrykin studied at the graduate school of the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University. In 1980, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences on the topic “Problems of investigating criminal cases involving foreign citizens.” From the same year he began to engage in teaching, Komsomol and party work. Bastrykin was a teacher, senior lecturer at the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Leningrad State University. From 1980 to 1985 he was secretary of the Leningrad State University Komsomol committee, secretary of the Leningrad city committee of the Komsomol. The media noted that at the same time, Valentina Matvienko, who was elected governor of St. Petersburg in October 2003, worked in the Leningrad bodies of the Komsomol.
In 1986, Bastrykin became deputy secretary of the Leningrad State University party committee. In 1987, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Problems of interaction between the norms of domestic and international law in the field of criminal proceedings.”
Since 1988, Bastrykin headed the Leningrad Institute for the Improvement of Investigative Workers at the USSR Prosecutor's Office. In 1992-1996, he served as rector of the St. Petersburg Law Institute and received the academic title of professor. According to some sources, Bastrykin also headed the department of transport law at the St. Petersburg State University of Water Communications.
In 1996-1998, Bastrykin was an assistant to the commander of the North-Western District of the Internal Troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for legal work. In 1998, he was appointed director of the North-Western branch of the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. In July 2001, he became the head of the department of the Ministry of Justice for the Northwestern Federal District (NWFD), and in June 2006 - the head of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District (CFD).
On October 6, 2006, Bastrykin was appointed Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, overseeing the investigation of criminal cases. According to media reports, Bastrykin was in conflict with another deputy of Chaika, Viktor Grin, who was directly in charge of the investigation. In May 2007, President Putin signed a law that provided for the creation of an Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office. The head of this structure should be the First Deputy Prosecutor General, but he should be appointed by the Federation Council on the proposal of the president and, thus, actually became independent from the prosecutor's office. In particular, he had independence in carrying out personnel policy. On June 22, 2007, the Federation Council approved Bastrykin’s candidacy for the post of chairman of the Investigative Committee. About three months after this, while the apparatus of the new structure was being formed, organizational and legal issues were being resolved, Bastrykin was the acting head of the committee.
According to some observers, Bastrykin was guided by the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Igor Sechin, who allegedly intended to take revenge after the resignation of his protégé Vladimir Ustinov from the post of Prosecutor General in the summer of 2006 and his appointment to the less influential position of head of the Ministry of Justice.
The stated purpose of creating the Investigative Committee was to separate the investigation itself, which Bastrykin’s committee was supposed to deal with, and supervision of the investigation and representation of the prosecution in court, which, like issues of extradition, remained with the prosecutor’s office. The media suggested that the actual selection of investigative functions from the prosecutor’s office was supposed to weaken its political influence, which increased sharply after the start of the “YUKOS case” in 2003 and was once again demonstrated in 2006-2007 during the “customs case” and the initiation a number of criminal trials against regional and city leaders.
After his confirmation as acting head of the Investigative Committee, Bastrykin made several statements to the media, talking about the investigation of the most high-profile criminal cases. Thus, regarding the solution to the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in October 2006, he said that of the six initial versions, a significant part has already disappeared and now the remaining ones are being worked out. Bastrykin also commented on the progress of the investigation into the death of ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was close to businessman Boris Berezovsky, who died in November 2006 in London as a result of poisoning with the radioactive substance polonium-210. Bastrykin said that Russian investigators work closely with their British colleagues, although they allegedly do not receive the proper return from them. According to him, the British side is working on only one version of what happened, according to which the killer is Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi. The Russian side would like to work out several other versions. According to media reports, Bastrykin also stated that Litvinenko was most likely poisoned by Berezovsky himself.
On August 13, 2007, in the Novgorod region, the Nevsky Express fast train, traveling along the Moscow-St. Petersburg route, derailed. As a result, 60 people were injured, more than two dozen of them were hospitalized. Bastrykin led a group of investigators and criminologists who went to the scene. According to preliminary data, the cause of the accident was an explosion on the tracks of a homemade bomb. Based on the incident, the prosecutor's office opened a criminal case under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("terrorism"). Bastrykin announced the completion of the investigation into the Nevsky Express bombing case at the end of February 2009. Natives of Ingushetia Salanbek Dzakhkiev and Maksharip Khidriev were brought forward as defendants in this case. However, they were involved in the case “only as accomplices of the organizer and perpetrator of the terrorist attack, who, according to the investigation, was a certain Pavel Kosolapov, who was wanted for organizing a series of terrorist attacks in 2003-2005. At the same time, the details of the investigation, as noted by the publication Vremya Novostey” , remained unknown.
On September 7, 2007, Bastrykin officially assumed the position of Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. On the same day, he signed an order to transfer more than 18 thousand employees from the prosecutor's office to the committee. There was also a transfer of 60 thousand criminal cases across the country to the investigative units of the new department. Bastrykin told journalists that the Investigative Committee will not compete with the prosecutor’s office, since they have different areas activities. On September 19, Bastrykin was relieved of his post as Deputy Prosecutor General and became First Deputy Prosecutor General, which, according to the law, corresponded to the position of head of the Investigative Committee.
At the same time, Bastrykin was not included in the staff of the department a whole series investigators involved in high-profile criminal cases in the recent past. Thus, the following were not included in the Investigative Committee: senior investigator for especially important cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office Salavat Karimov, who led the investigation of two criminal cases against businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky; Head of the Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Prosecutor General's Office Sergei Ivanov, who led the investigation team into the Politkovskaya murder case; the deputy head of this department, Andrei Mayorov, who oversaw the investigation into Litvinenko’s poisoning. In addition, the committee did not include investigators who were involved in the cases of defrauded investors of the Social Initiative partnership, the case of smuggling of mobile phones by the Euroset company and the case of the raider seizure of several enterprises in St. Petersburg in 2006-2007. All suspended investigators were given work in the central office of the Prosecutor General's Office. An anonymous source in Chaika's department told reporters that " similar solution causes nothing but bewilderment,” and added that the prosecutor’s office’s own security service, which has existed for a year, officially has no complaints against these employees.
Subsequently, the media noted that contradictions arose between the UPC and the Prosecutor General’s Office in connection with the division of functions, property and funds allocated for their maintenance, since “the interpretation of the legislation made it possible to consider the UPC as a generally independent body, both in procedural and administrative terms ". They also wrote in the press about the existence of a personal conflict between Bastrykin and Chaika, which was accompanied by “not only polemics in absentia and throwing incriminating evidence into the media, but also a scandal” surrounding the ex-chief of the Main Investigation Department (GSU) of the SKP Dmitry Dovgiy, who actually accused Bastrykin “of fabrication of a number of criminal cases" (in April 2008, Bastrykin signed an order to relieve Dovgy from office and dismissal, and in August 2008, Dovgy was arrested on suspicion of attempting to receive a bribe on an especially large scale and exceeding official authority). It was noted that the criminal cases against the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Sergei Storchak and the head of the operational support department of the State Drug Control Service Alexander Bulbov provided a reason to perceive “the political situation and to doubt the objectivity of the investigation.”
Supreme Court The Russian Federation confirmed the supremacy of the Prosecutor General's Office over the SKP only at the beginning of March 2009. Having analyzed the norms regulating the activities of the UPC and the Prosecutor General’s Office, the court recognized that the orders of the Prosecutor General “are binding on representatives of the UPC, including the head of this department himself.” The Supreme Court also determined that the Prosecutor General has the right to overturn the decision of his first deputy. Thus, as the media noted, the court resolved “the dilemma of which of the... leaders (Bastrykin or Chaika - editor’s note) is more important.”
At the beginning of August 2008, the situation in the area of the South Ossetian city of Tskhinvali, the zone of presence of Russian and Georgian peacekeepers, worsened. On August 8, 2008, Georgian troops entered the territory of South Ossetia, and the capital of the unrecognized republic, the city of Tskhinvali, was subjected to heavy artillery shelling. On August 9, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced the start of an operation “to force peace in the zone of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict.” After a trip to Vladikavkaz, Prime Minister Putin called what was happening in South Ossetia a genocide of the Ossetian people and proposed documenting the crimes committed against the civilian population. Then Medvedev decided to entrust Bastrykin with coordinating the work of collecting documentary evidence of crimes by the Georgian side in South Ossetia, which “will become the basis for future criminal prosecution of persons who committed crimes.”
After this, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Russian Federation Prosecutor's Office for North Ossetia, the subject of the federation closest to the scene of the incident, opened a criminal case in connection with Georgia's attack on South Ossetia on charges of premeditated murder of two or more persons in a generally dangerous manner (Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) . Kommersant also reported that the military prosecutor’s office had previously opened a criminal case in connection with the murder on the territory of South Ossetia Russian peacekeepers. The publication wrote that investigators began work in refugee camps: they interviewed victims, witnesses, and relatives of the victims (according to unofficial data, their number as of August 12, 2008 was more than 2 thousand people). A few days later, the Investigative Committee recognized what happened in South Ossetia as genocide, on the basis of which it opened a single criminal case. At the same time, Bastrykin stated that evidence on the fact of genocide was being collected “both for domestic Russian investigation and for possible transfer to international authorities.”
At the end of August, after the end of the conflict, which was called the “five-day war” in the press, Bastrykin gave an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, in which he stated that “the facts of genocide against the Ossetian people are fully confirmed.” The crimes of the Georgian army, which, according to him, invaded South Ossetia, “pursuing the goal complete destruction national group of Ossetians,” he compared with “the atrocities of the Nazis during the war.” In February 2009, at the final board at the Prosecutor General’s Office, Bastrykin announced the completion of the investigation. He noted that the fact of Georgia’s genocide against the Ossetian people was “fully confirmed.” July 3, 2009 Bastrykin reported that in the case of the events in South Ossetia, the death of 162 civilians was officially confirmed, and a total of 5,315 people were recognized as victims.
Bastrykin has the rank of State Counselor of Justice of the first class, is an honorary worker of justice, a full member of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement, Russian Academy social sciences and the Baltic Pedagogical Academy. He is the author of a series scientific works on criminal law topics and the theory of state and law, as well as a series of journalistic articles. Bastrykin has state and public awards, including medals of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation "For Diligence" I and II degrees. On September 1, 2008, President Medvedev awarded Bastrykin the Order of Merit for the Fatherland “for great services in strengthening law and order, many years of fruitful activity.”
Bastrykin is married and has two children.
07/02/2008, Photo: ITAR-TASS
Bohemian law by Bastrykin
The chairman of the country's Investigative Committee conducts secret business in the Czech Republic
Alexander Khinshtein
Who is Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin?
Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office - some will say.
Putin's classmate - others will answer.
They will all be right. But not completely. Because no one knows the true face of Alexander Bastrykin; including, I'm afraid, even his former classmate.
In addition to all his other advantages and ranks, the chairman of the UPC has one more - the talent of a businessman.
This is not a journalistic allegory at all, but the most literal medical fact, confirmed, in addition, by official documents.
The country's chief investigator, who has been secretly running his own business for many years Central Europe; I don’t think I could dream of something like this even in a nightmare...
In the official biography of Alexander Bastrykin, there is nothing outwardly that would encourage him to go into business. He never worked in the supply chain. He did not distribute government orders. I was not involved in oil and gas.
All life is like a continuous Criminal Code; police, prosecutor's office, science, justice. But this is only a first, deceptive impression...
...The Troya district in the north of the Czech capital greeted me with green grass and the glow of tiled roofs. The birds were singing.
“One of the most prestigious and green areas of Prague,” says the guidebook about Troy. - Most of occupied by parks: Stromovka - the oldest, most beautiful park in Prague; Troya Park, adjacent to Troya Castle; Zoo and Botanical Garden.
Back in the 17th century, Troy was favored by the royal dynasty. From those years, Prague residents were left with a royal castle in the early Baroque style - now it houses an art museum - and dozens luxury mansions; Czech nobility once preferred to live in them.
Today, as in ancient times, Troy is again in fashion. Living here is honorable and prestigious; it seems to be both a city and no longer a city: parks, greenery, a river. It is not surprising that Alexander Bastrykin also liked this area.
...This is the street I need. Knezdenska, 767/2с, says the sign on the multi-story multi-colored tower, built already in the era of capitalism. It is here, according to the documents, that the office of the company “LAW Bohemia” is located.
True, there are no identifying marks on the house. At the entrance there are only signs with the names of the residents; “LAW Bohemia” is not among them. None of the neighbors I interviewed had heard of this company either. And yet she is here; It’s just that for some reason its owners are in no hurry to advertise their activities.
Russians? Yes, there are some sort of visits,” drawls a middle-aged lady hesitantly as she comes out of the entrance; she takes the child for a walk in the yard (gravel paths, neatly trimmed lawns) and is clearly not in the mood for conversation...
...Alexander Bastrykin has a unique sense of humor. “LAW Bohemia” means “Bohemian Law”. This office, however, has nothing to do with jurisprudence; as follows from the constituent documents, the subject of its activities is real estate transactions; in other words, real estate.
I don’t know whether Czech (and Bohemian as well) law allows its officials to engage in commerce; In Russian legislation there are no two opinions on this matter.
If someone else had been in Bastrykin's place - the director of a theater, for example, or the manager of a boat station - he could have made a reservation about his legal illiteracy. But for the country's chief investigator, a professional lawyer, a doctor of science, who has devoted his entire life to jurisprudence, such truisms seem so obvious that they do not even require explanation.
Anyway, to the point.
The company LAW Bohemia was founded in Prague on March 1, 2000. Form of organization - limited liability company. The type of activity, as already mentioned, is real estate operations. Authorized capital - 100 thousand Czech crowns (4 thousand euros).
All this information can be easily obtained from the trade register of the Prague City Court - an analogue of our registration service; in the Czech Republic, information about commercial companies is open; it is given to anyone who wants it.
This one I took also contains information about the owners of “LAW Bohemia”. There are only two of them:
Alexander Bastrykin, born on August 27, 1953, St. Petersburg, st. Galernaya, 26, apt. No., Russian Federation. Contribution to authorized capital- 50 thousand crowns. Ownership share - 50%.
Olga Alexandrova, born March 28, 1970. The address, contribution amount and shares are the same.
Both the date of birth and home address - everything matches closely with the personal data of the chairman of the UPC; it wasn't difficult to check. As for the second founder of the company, no questions arise here either: Olga Ivanovna Alexandrova is the legal wife of the chairman of the UPC, the mother of his two children and, in addition, as it now turns out, a partner.
However, when “LAW Bohemia” was first created, there was nothing reprehensible about it; in March 2000, Bastrykin was still the head of the North-Western branch of the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice and was not a civil servant. By law, he could establish any commercial structures; The main thing is to submit your declarations on time.
And therefore, with a light heart, Bastrykin, having organized “LAW Bohemia”, simultaneously became its director; so as not to share with anyone, apparently.
In July 2001, however, he was appointed acting. Head of the Federal Department of the Ministry of Justice for the Northwestern Federal District. From that day on, Bastrykin, subject to the law “On Civil Service,” was obliged to immediately resign as director of “LAW Bohemia” and resign from the founders. This procedure is not at all complicated, thousands of people have gone through it; transfer your share to your wife-companion, and that’s the end of it.
But for some reason he doesn't do this. The necessary changes will be made to the register of the Prague Commercial Court only in March 2003. The chairman of the UPC has not said goodbye to the foundation to this day; despite the fact that he managed to work as both the head of the main directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District and the deputy prosecutor general, now he is the head of a very powerful department.
The official statement I received (as of May 2008) states that Alexander Bastrykin is still the owner of a 50% stake in LAW Bohemia. In accordance with Czech law, this means that he owns not only half the company, but also half of its entire property. In the event of the liquidation of LAW Bohemia, Bastrykin and his wife will automatically receive all the property of the company.
In particular, housing in house No. 767/2c on Knezdenska Street. In this mysterious house, I counted at least three apartments associated with “LAW Bohemia”. One of them has its legal address registered to it. The second is the full property of the company (read - the Bastrykin family). The third belongs to the son of their business partner, 22-year-old Georgy Shutenko. (His father, Igor Shutenko, is today the director of LAW Bohemia, replacing Bastrykin.)
In a word, there is somewhere to roam. Prague real estate prices are growing by leaps and bounds. In this area they are one of the most expensive: 2.5-3 thousand euros per meter. (One of the residents of the “Bastrykinsky” house admitted to me, for example, that he bought his 80-meter apartment for 5.3 million crowns - in conversion this is about 210 thousand euros.)
But there are also houses where “LAW Bohemia” was registered before. Until 2003, its legal address was located in the fashionable town of Kladno, 15 kilometers from Prague (Jizni Street, 2942). Then two years - in the suburban area of Tukhomiritsa. Only in 2005 “LAW Bohemia” finally moved to Troy, to Knezdenska.
It is clear that such management requires an eye and an eye. Probably for this reason, Bastrykin flew to the Czech Republic with enviable frequency until recently. His last visit was noted in December last year, that is, already when he was chairman of the UPC.
The most amazing thing is that at the same time, Alexander Ivanovich also managed to get himself... a two-year entrepreneur visa. It was issued by the Czech police on February 6 last year (No. FA 0436991) and is still valid today. Moreover, it is stamped in... his service passport (62 No. 2739038).
Who doesn’t know: an entrepreneur visa is a document giving the right to engage in commercial activities in the host country. To obtain it, you need a very serious justification.
I bet you will never guess what wording the Deputy Prosecutor General wrote in his visa application (Bastrykin was in this position at the time). “Exercising managerial functions” is written in black and white on his papers. (All of them, by the way, are kept in the Czech police department for work with foreigners.)
The same documents also contain a notarized invitation, which was issued to Bastrykin by the son of the director of LAW Bohemia, Georgy Shutenko; he guaranteed that he would settle him in his apartment at the address we already knew: Prague 8, Troja, Knezdenska, 767/2c.
(I doubt, however, that Alexander Ivanovich would need to take advantage of his hospitality; everything is in order with a roof over his head.)
To be honest, I tried to find Shutenko’s father and son in order to understand what connects them with the main Russian investigator. Alas, my searches were in vain.
As a result, we managed to find out a little about them. Both of them are natives of Ashgabat. In 1993 they received Russian citizenship. Officially, the Shutenko family is registered in the remote village of Seltsovo, Pochinkovsky district, Smolensk region, where, naturally, no one has ever seen them. At the same time, in the mid-1990s, Shutenko Sr. was registered in Ukraine (Kyiv, Garina St., 51). Apparently, they live permanently in the Czech Republic. They are co-founders of a number of local commercial structures.
Where their paths crossed with Bastrykin - only God knows. But, apparently, each of the parties does not regret this acquaintance; they have been together for five long years.
After all, even if you are a professor and a doctor of science at least three times, you still cannot do without efficient and smart cosmopolitan partners; especially if you live in Russia and do business in the Czech Republic...
Most recently, the leadership of the UPC announced that employees of this department “became the target of the activities of Western intelligence services and terrorist organizations.” Simply put, foreign spies and saboteurs are trying to recruit honest Russian investigators.
Holy simplicity! Why fuss, look for approaches to ordinary investigators, solder them on, build multi-step combinations, when right under your nose - you just have to stretch out your hand - here it is, the desired goal.
The head of a law enforcement agency, a top-level secret agent, secretly conducting business in a foreign country - yes, no self-respecting intelligence agency will miss such an amazing opportunity for recruitment.
I have no doubt at all that Czech counterintelligence has long been interested in the activities of the modest office “LAW Bohemia”; and how could it be otherwise, if an entrepreneur visa is pasted into the general’s official passport.
The Czech Republic has always been an invisible field of spy wars; its geopolitical position is ideal for this. Only before, the Czech intelligence services worked under the supervision of their older brothers from the KGB, and today the vacated place has been taken by “partners” from the CIA.
This is especially relevant now that construction of an American radar station has begun at the Brdy military training ground - the largest electronic intelligence center in Europe, aimed towards Russia.
However, let the FSB better understand these secret intricacies. Let's turn to the legal side.
Remaining among the co-founders of the Czech company, the chairman of the UPC, like no one else, could not help but understand that he was flagrantly violating several laws at once.
Firstly, the laws on the prosecutor's office and on the civil service, which strictly prohibit officials from being owners of commercial structures.
Secondly, the tax code: after all, Bastrykin prudently does not indicate income from the activities of “LAW Bohemia” in his declarations, thus concealing them from taxes.
Thirdly, the law on state secrets, which prohibits secret carriers from freely traveling abroad. Bastrykin was required to document each voyage to the Czech Republic with an official report addressed to his leader; and not just formalize, but also justify the purpose of the trip. Naturally, he never wrote such documents; and what could he explain? What goes to another country to “perform managerial functions” with a service passport in his pocket?
Each of these violations is quite enough for Bastrykin’s instant dismissal, or even for initiating a criminal case. But…
Who will check it? Attorney General? He has no power over the chairman of the UPC, although he is his first deputy. President? He is not a procedural person.
Moreover, no one can even initiate a case against Bastrykin except... Bastrykin himself. And this is the key to understanding everything that is happening.
There is no doubt: there are no angels among the current powers that be; only salt is odorless. But everything has its limits, rules of decency in the end.
How can you make beautiful speeches about the supremacy of the law, declare a crusade against crime, personally initiate criminal cases, and at the same time, quietly ride beyond the border, inspecting your own “candle factory”? This is not just a violation of the law, it is a complete discredit of it. After this, who will believe in the honesty and integrity of the Investigative Committee if its chairman trades real estate abroad in his free time?
And nothing stopped Bastrykin from doing the same thing without showing his own ears. I would register “LAW Bohemia” for my wife or for the same cosmopolitan Shutenkos and live in peace, without secret voyages or business visas. No, no.
Why. What is the reason?
Greed? I doubt it too. What difference does it make whether the business is registered to you or your wife?
A feeling of complete impunity is perhaps the most accurate answer. Absolute permissiveness, when it seems that you have already grabbed God by the beard, any sea is knee-deep and the law is you.
More than one dignitary has stumbled over such orange peels: remember, for example, the high-profile “Mabetex” case, when Russian officials, openly opened accounts in Swiss banks in their own names.
I also had a chance to write about another story, almost similar to Bastrykin’s - about the adventures of the general director of the Agency for Management Systems, Vladimir Simonov, who, when he also entered the civil service, “forgot” to leave the ranks of the founders of Czech companies.
The careers of such people, as a rule, ended bleakly: they were quietly sent into retirement or into honorable exile. And not because the government was cleared of those who discredit it; rather, the hardware instinct of self-preservation was triggered: anything can be expected from such subjects.
I don’t know how the facts I have made public will affect the future fate of the chairman of the UPC. Alexander Bastrykin enjoys the open support of many state leaders; again - Law Faculty of Leningrad State University. That is why he behaves so confidently, and the whole series of scandals that constantly rock the Investigative Committee ends painlessly for him.
However, it is unlikely that both the President and the Prime Minister (not to mention the Secretary of the Security Council and the Director of the FSB) until today were aware of the second, secret life of their colleague; and even more so, it is unlikely to cause them great delight.
In the end, there must be some limits to everything - even old student friendships...
Moscow-Prague-Moscow.
After the Duma elections, Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin will leave his post. The issue was resolved after the initiation of criminal cases against high-ranking employees of the department, RBC sources say
Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin (Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/press service of the President of the Russian Federation/TASS)
Bastrykin's resignation
Alexander Bastrykin will leave the post of chairman of the Investigative Committee, interlocutors close to the leadership of the FSB, the central office of the Investigative Committee, and three close to the Investigative Committee told RBC presidential administration source. The resignation will take place shortly after the September 18 elections, although exact dates RBC's interlocutors do not name. “I’m hearing this for the first time,” presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told RBC, answering a question about whether Bastrykin’s resignation is really being discussed now. Representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin (whose imminent departure became known on Wednesday) refused to talk with RBC.
In July, Bastrykin’s department found itself at the center of a scandal in connection with a criminal case against high-ranking employees of the Investigative Committee. in particular large size(Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) were presented to the head of the Department of Interdepartmental Cooperation and Internal Security (UMISB) of the ICR Mikhail Maksimenko, his deputy Alexander Lamonov and Deputy Head of the Main Investigation Department for Moscow Denis Nikandrov. According to FSB investigators, they tried to people of the criminal authority Zakhary Kalashov, nicknamed Shakro Molodoy. The operatives assigned a key role in the case to Maksimenko, who, in law enforcement, was one of the most influential employees of the Investigative Committee and a friend of Bastrykin, RBC sources in the Investigative Committee and the FSB say. Markin then expressed gratitude to the FSB officers for the detention.
The issue of Bastrykin’s career was resolved after the arrests of his subordinates, says an RBC interlocutor close to the leadership of the FSB, but all personnel decisions were left for the period after the Duma elections. At the same time, Peskov told reporters that “hypothetical considerations [about possible resignation Chairman of the Investigative Committee] against the backdrop of investigative actions are absolutely unacceptable.”
Dissatisfaction with Bastrykin “has been matured for a long time,” explains the FSB source. According to him, the chairman of the Investigative Committee often attracted undue attention to himself. In April of this year, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee published in the magazine "Kommersant" -Power” in which hejustified the tightening anti-extremist legislation and reasoned that Russia’s problems are related to the hybrid war that the United States is waging against it. In the summer of 2012, he met Sergei Sokolov, deputy editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta. In the same year, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexey Navalny, Bastrykin received a residence permit in the Czech Republic and real estate in this country. And at the end of 2015 it became known that the Spanish prosecutor’s office was with members of the Tambov criminal group.
In 2015, President Vladimir Putin expressed dissatisfaction with the work of the head of the Investigative Committee at one of the meetings, sources close to the government and the security department told RBC. His work coordinating the work of Russian and Armenian security forces to investigate the high-profile murder of an Armenian family by a Russian soldier was considered clumsy, one source.
The Investigative Committee is objectively in crisis, and the head of the Investigative Committee has relied on unprofessional personnel, says an RBC interlocutor close to the presidential administration. The level of investigation in the Investigative Committee has been dropping all the time, says lawyer Ruslan Koblev. According to him, the lack of prosecutorial control had a negative impact on the quality of the investigation. “Investigations have become opaque and have come down to investigators stuffing cases with formal evidence, because they know that in the end the courts will still hand down guilty verdicts,” says the lawyer.
Bastrykin fulfilled his function by creating the Investigative Committee, but in the process of this work, he first seriously damaged relations with the Prosecutor General’s Office, and later the effectively working connection with the FSB was disrupted, says political scientist Evgeniy Minchenko. The head of the Investigative Committee lost the hardware war with other law enforcement agencies, states an interlocutor close to the leadership of the Kremlin administration.
New leader
The current deputy chairman of the ICR, Major General of Justice Igor Krasnov, is being considered as a possible new head of the department, say two RBC interlocutors close to the leadership of the ICR and the FSB. Krasnov is known for investigating high-profile cases. Since 2009, he has been leading the case of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova in the center of Moscow. As a result, nationalists Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis, involved in the activities of the “Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists” (BORN), were detained and convicted. Krasnov led the investigation into the murder of Boris Nemtsov for two months, after which he was replaced at the head of the investigative team by Nikolai Tutevich . In May 2015, Krasnov joined the Investigative Committee, which included best employees departments.
Earlier, RBC's interlocutors said that the current governor of St. Petersburg, Georgy Poltavchenko, was being considered to replace Bastrykin. According to them, the decision to change the head Northern capital and in security circles it was discussed that he could head the joint Investigative Committee. Theoretically, this option is being considered now, says an interlocutor close to the Kremlin. But there is still doubt that Poltavchenko will be able to actively engage in the operational management of the work of the Investigative Committee.
If Bastrykin really leaves his place, then he could probably be replaced by a person not from the Investigative Committee, but from the prosecutor’s office or the FSB, lawyer Koblev suggests.
Before the boss
On Wednesday it became known that the Investigative Committee was leaving him official representative Vladimir Markin. This information was confirmed by an RBC source close to the presidential administration with reference to a source and TASS. Markin himself refused to comment on the information about his resignation.
RBC's FSB interlocutor explained that Markin's fate was supposed to be decided after the elections, but the latest scandals surrounding the department's press secretary "filled the cup of patience." Markin leaves his post amid accusations of plagiarism. At the beginning of September, the major general presented the book “The Most Loud Crimes of the 21st Century in Russia”, after which journalists from Novaya Gazeta and Kommersant stated that Markin used the texts of their publications without the permission of the editors and indication of sources. Later publishing house , which stated that the book Markina was published without reference to excerpts from media materials due to a technical error. On Wednesday, September 14, Markin’s meeting with readers was supposed to take place at the Moscow bookstore, but it was canceled due to reasons beyond the store’s control, according to a message published on the website.
Markin had a difficult relationship with most of the TFR investigators, say three RBC interlocutors close to the department. According to one of them, the representative of the Investigative Committee was often not warned about impending searches or other operational activities. For example, Mikhail Khodorkovsky at the end of December 2015 came as a surprise to Markin.
A TASS source said that Markin “is changing his field of activity because he received another offer where he can solve no less large-scale and responsible tasks.” Interfax, citing an interlocutor in the fuel and energy complex, reported that Markin could take the position of deputy general director of RusHydro for public relations and government agencies. A source close to the government confirmed to RBC that this option is possible. “We started discussing it recently, literally yesterday, but no decision has been made yet,” he said. The head of the RusHydro press service told RBC that he does not have such information.
9 years of investigation
Bastrykin is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University. At the university, he was the head of the group where Vladimir Putin studied. Later he worked in the internal affairs bodies, defended his dissertation and was secretary of the Leningrad city committee of the Komsomol. In the late 1980s - the first half of the 1990s, he headed first the Leningrad Institute for the Improvement of Investigative Workers at the USSR Prosecutor's Office, and then the St. Petersburg Law Institute. In the 2000s, he worked as head of the Department of the Ministry of Justice for the Northwestern Federal District, and in 2006 he was appointed Deputy Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. In 2007, Bastrykin headed the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office, on the basis of which the Investigative Committee of Russia was formed in 2011.
Large-scale events have been taking place recently in the Investigative Committee of Russia. Following September 14, it becomes known about the resignation of the department’s press secretary, Vladimir Markin. And later, unofficial sources report that after the State Duma elections on September 18, the head of the Investigative Committee will also leave his post Alexander Bastrykin. remembers interesting facts from the biography of the chief investigator of Russia.
Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin (born August 27, 1953, Pskov) is a fellow student of Vladimir Putin. They studied together at Leningradsky state university. At the same time, Bastrykin was the head of the group where he studied future president Russia. Subsequently, Bastrykin entered Putin’s closest circle of associates, where he received the informal nickname Starosta. After graduating from high school, Bastrykin worked in the police and taught at the St. Petersburg Law Institute. Here he received the title of Doctor of Law, and later - professor. After the collapse of the USSR, he continued to teach and work in state legal structures.
From the prosecutor's office to the Investigative Committee
In 2006, Bastrykin was appointed deputy prosecutor general. Yuri Chaika became the Prosecutor General at that time.
In 2007, an Investigative Committee was created within the prosecutor’s office, which was entrusted with conducting the investigation. It was headed by Alexander Bastrykin with the rank of first deputy prosecutor general.
In 2011, the Investigative Committee became an independent structure, and Bastrykin became its leader.
What was Russia's chief investigator doing?
In 2008, Bastrykin personally headed the investigation into the murder of the prosecutor of the Saratov region, which was solved within three weeks.
Also in 2008, Bastrykin headed the work of the investigative group of the Investigative Committee to investigate the facts of Georgia’s armed aggression against South Ossetia. The investigation resulted in more than 500 volumes of a criminal case transferred by Russia to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
On May 22, 2009, Bastrykin made sharp statements at an interdepartmental meeting on combating crime among migrants and improving migration policy. In particular, he drew attention to the increased level of illegal migration to Russia and to high level corruption in the Federal Migration Service.
In 2010, he led the investigation into the massacre in the village of Kushchevskaya, Krasnodar Territory.
Managed the activities investigation team Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to investigate the criminal activities of Barsukov-Kumarin, sentenced on August 18, 2016 to 23 years in prison.
In 2014, he initiated criminal prosecution of senior officials Ministry of Defense and Internal Affairs of Ukraine, as well as military personnel of the Ukrainian army for committing serious crimes against the civilian population of south-eastern Ukraine. These individuals have been charged with committing war crimes and genocide and have been put on the international wanted list.
Wound and concussion
On November 29, 2009, Bastrykin personally went to the site of the explosion of the Nevsky Express high-speed train. At this time, a second explosion of an explosive device occurred next to him, which was hidden under the railway track. As it turned out later, the explosive device was detonated using mobile phone. Bastrykin himself received a concussion and a moderate wound.
What new has appeared under Bastrykin?
The head of the Investigative Committee introduced the practice of monthly personal receptions of citizens by the leadership of the department.
On Bastrykin’s initiative, in 2016, officers’ honor courts were created in the Russian Investigative Committee to consider cases of misconduct by officers of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
In addition, at the suggestion of Bastrykin, in 2016, a Council of Heroes was formed in the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Soviet Union and the Russian Federation to conduct military-patriotic work with young investigators, as well as students of the Academies of the RF IC and the cadet corps of the RF IC.
Also, on Bastrykin’s initiative, in 2016, the Council of Heads of Investigative Agencies of the Russian Investigative Committee was formed to discuss current problems in the activities of the territorial divisions of the Russian Investigative Committee.
On his initiative, the Academy of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation was created and is successfully functioning in Moscow. On September 1, 2016, the Academy of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation began its activities in St. Petersburg.
Bastrykin supported and implemented by his decision the re-establishment of the Institute of Forensics within the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation as a research and scientific-methodological base for the development of applied scientific, practical and methodological research in the field of criminology in relation to the needs and specifics of the preliminary investigation in the system of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
What else was interesting in Bastrykin’s biography?
In 1970, Bastrykin graduated from secondary school No. 27 in the Vasileostrovsky district of Leningrad with in-depth study of the Russian language, literature and history. In his youth, Bastrykin studied classical dance at the People's Ballet Theater of the Palace of Culture named after the First Five-Year Plan under the direction of the famous Leningrad choreographer, former soloist of the Mariinsky Theater ballet L.M. Molodyashina. He was interested in volleyball and music - he played the guitar in the student vocal and instrumental ensemble of the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University. Attended classes at the “School of Young Journalists” at the Leningrad youth newspaper “Smena”.
Scientific works of Bastrykin
In June 2016, the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, was officially admitted to the Writers' Union of Russia. It is known that the chief investigator knows how to find time to conduct scientific activity and writing books.
Thus, he already has about 150 scientific works under his belt, which are devoted to current problems of state and law, international law, criminal procedure and criminology.
In addition, Wikipedia reports that in 2015 Bastrykin published books about ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and politician Lyudmila Shvetsova.
However, his most famous book, which received the largest number of positive reviews, also “earned” the largest number of accusations of plagiarism. Thus, it is stated that some fragments of the text literally repeat the work “A Century of Forensics” of 1975 by the German writer Jurgen Thorwald, as well as the work of the Irish writer Anthony Summers “The FBI Empire: Myths, Secrets, Intrigues.”
What scandals are associated with Bastrykin?
Even the head of the Investigative Committee cannot avoid scandals. Thus, in the summer of 2012, the deputy editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Sergei Sokolov, stated that Bastrykin threatened him for some material. Afterwards, the parties apologized to each other, and the conflict was considered settled.
Also in 2012, Alexey Navalny published data that Bastrykin had a residence permit in the Czech Republic and real estate in this country. This information was confirmed by the Czech Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Why did they even decide that Bastrykin would leave the post of head of the Investigative Committee?
RBC, citing its sources, published information that Bastrykin will leave his post after the State Duma elections.
On September 15, the press secretary of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, said that RBC’s message about the possible resignation of the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, was not true: “Don’t make people laugh. What sources could RBC have in the FSB and the Investigative Committee, except perhaps among those under investigation.” The Kremlin also said that it did not know about Bastrykin’s resignation. Answering a question, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov recommended not to make “hypothetical arguments” on this matter.
According to an RBC source, the resignation of the head of the Investigative Committee is due to the fact that high-ranking employees of the Investigative Committee Mikhail Maksimenko, his deputy Alexander Lamonov and deputy head of the Main Investigation Department for Moscow Denis Nikandrov. They were also accused of involvement in the release from prison of criminal boss Zakhary Kalashov.
