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Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin
Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
from January 15, 2011 (acting from October 4, 2010)

1st Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation (from September 7, 2007 to January 14, 2011)
Predecessor: position created
Successor: position abolished (no formal decision of the Federation Council on the dismissal of the First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation was made)
Education: Leningrad State University
Academic degree: Doctor of Law, Professor
Birth: August 27, 1953
Pskov, RSFSR, USSR
Military service
Rank: Colonel General

Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin(b. August 27, 1953, Pskov) - Russian statesman, First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation (SKP RF) since September 7, 2007. On January 15, 2011, he was appointed Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

In 1975 Alexander Bastrykin graduated from the Faculty of Law of Leningrad state university(LSU). He studied on the same course with V.V. Putin.
In 1975-1977 Alexander Bastrykin worked in the internal affairs bodies.
In 1980-1987 Alexander Bastrykin was a teacher at the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University. Also, during this period, he was the secretary of the Komsomol - the Leningrad State University Komsomol Committee (1980-1982), the Leningrad City Committee (1982-1983) and the Regional Committee (1983-1985).

In 1988-1991 Alexander Bastrykin- Director of the Institute for the Improvement of Investigative Workers at the USSR Prosecutor's Office, in 1992-1996 - Rector of the St. Petersburg law institute.

In 1995 Alexander Bastrykin- Head of the Department of Transport Law, St. Petersburg State University of Water Communications, St. Petersburg.

In 1995-1996 Alexander Bastrykin- Professor of the Department of Transport Law of the St. Petersburg State University of Water Communications, St. Petersburg.

In 1996-1998 Alexander Bastrykin- Assistant Commander of the North-Western District internal troops Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs legal work.

In 1998-2001 Alexander Bastrykin- Director of the North-Western branch of the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

2001-2006 Alexander Bastrykin headed the department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the North-West federal district.

From June 12 to October 6, 2006 Alexander Bastrykin- Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Central Federal District.

On October 6, 2006, at the 183rd meeting of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yu. Ya. Chaika presented for consideration candidacy of A. I. Bastrykin for appointment to the post of Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. The Federation Council of the Russian Federation, at the same meeting, by secret ballot, almost unanimously, approved the candidacy for the position.

On June 22, 2007, at the 206th meeting of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, a resolution was adopted on the procedure for appointing the Chairman of the UPC of the Russian Federation. At the same meeting, candidacy of A. I. Bastrykin, submitted for approval by the President of the Russian Federation in accordance with federal law, was approved in the position of First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. Since September 7, 2007 Alexander Bastrykin took up his duties in his new position.

Since October 4, 2010 Alexander Bastrykin performed duties, and from January 15, 2011 was appointed Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. At the same time, the decisions of the Federation Council on the release Alexandra Bastrykina from the post of First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation was not accepted, and therefore formally he is still the First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

Scientific activity of Alexander Bastrykin

Alexander Bastrykin In 1977-1980 he studied at the graduate school of Leningrad State University. In 1980 he defended his thesis on the topic: “Problems of investigating criminal cases involving foreign citizens", and in 1987 - his doctoral dissertation "Interaction of domestic and international law in the field of Soviet criminal proceedings."

Alexander Bastrykin- Doctor of Law, professor. Author of more than 100 scientific works- their main topic is forensics. Chairman of the Academic Council and Professor of the Department of Theory of State and Law of the North-Western Branch of the Russian Law Academy of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

Alexander Bastrykin Member of the dissertation council D 212.232.66 at St. Petersburg State University.

Activities of Alexander Bastrykin as head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation

* May 22, 2009 Alexander 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, the high level of corruption in the Federal Migration Service, noted that guest workers are switching to illegal situation, unite in groups, create gangs for attacks and theft of property. He also provided the following data:

According to Investigative Committee, 36 thousand foreigners committed 54 thousand crimes. Most of them are accounted for by representatives of the republics of the former USSR - 81%. Every third crime in Moscow is committed by illegal migrants. But at the same time, officials from the FMS report almost thousands of illegal immigrants expelled from the country.

He also noted the distortion of data in reports on illegal immigration, calling them “bravura reports heard in high offices.”

* Alexander Bastrykin personally supervised the progress of the investigation into the murder of Hero of Russia Ruslan Yamadayev
* On June 30, 2009, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published a statement by the head of the SKP RF A lexander Bastrykin O Cherkizovsky market
* In October 2011, after the death of the former vice-president of YUKOS Vasily Aleksanyan, the name Alexandra Bastrykina included in the so-called “Aleksanyan list” published in Novaya Gazeta.

Awards and titles of Alexander Bastrykin

* On July 25, 2002, Alexander Bastrykin was awarded the class rank of State Counselor of Justice, 2nd class
*December 8, 2006 Alexander Bastrykin awarded the class rank of State Counselor of Justice 1st class
* On January 11, 2007, he was awarded the title “Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.”
* August 27, 2008 awarded the order"For services to the Fatherland" IV degree.
* Special rank - Colonel General of Justice (since January 15, 2011).

Books and articles by Alexander Bastrykin

* Procedural problems of the USSR's participation in international struggle with crime: Textbook. allowance / A. I. Bastrykin; Leningrad State University named after A. A. Zhdanova. - L.: Leningrad State University, 1985. - 99 p.
* Interaction of Soviet criminal procedure and international law / A. I. Bastrykin; Leningrad State University named after A. A. Zhdanova. - L.: Leningrad State University Publishing House, 1986. - 133, p.
* Fashion, idols and self / A. I. Bastrykin, E. B. Shiryaev. - L.: Lenizdat, 1988. - 172, p.
* International law in the fight against terrorism / A. I. Bastrykin. - L.: Leningrad. org. Island "Knowledge" RSFSR, 1990. - 20, p. - (To help the lecturer. Society “Knowledge” of the RSFSR, Leningrad. org.). ISBN 5-7320-0049-6
* Hand signs. Fingerprinting / A. I. Bastrykin. - St. Petersburg: Oreol, 2004. - 360 p. - (In the world of criminology / Russian legal academician of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, North-West Phil.). ISBN 5-9900335-1-6
* Shadows disappear in Smolny: The Murder of Kirov / Alexander Bastrykin, Olga Gromtseva; Ross. legal acad. North-West Phil. St. Petersburg legal int. - SPb.: Europe. House, 2001. - 375,
* Theory of State and Law: lectures / A. I. Bastrykin.- St. Petersburg: Oreol, 2005. - 274 p. - (Dura lex, sed lex). ISBN 5-9900335-2-4
* Time, law and law / A. I. Bastrykin. - St. Petersburg: Oreol, 2006. - 353 p. ISBN 5-9900335-5-9
* Scientific heritage of Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation Ivan Filippovich Krylov: on the 100th anniversary of his birth / A. I. Bastrykin. - St. Petersburg: Oreol, 2006. - 95 p. ISBN 5-9900335-4-0
* Forensics: technology, tactics and methods of crime investigation: scientific- practical guide/ A. I. Bastrykin. - M.: Oreol, 2008. - 465 p. ISBN 978-5-9900335-6-6
o... - 2nd ed., add. - St. Petersburg: Legal Center Press, 2010. - 459 p., l. color ill. ISBN 978-5-94201-555-8
* Investigation of crimes of increased public danger (forensic aspects) [Text]: practical guide / A. I. Bastrykin. - M.: Izvestia, 2010. - 156, p. ISBN 978-5-206-00795-4

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 in 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 the 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 scientific degree 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 and 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 head of the department of the Ministry of Justice for the Northwestern Federal District (NWFD), and in June 2006 - 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 Andrey 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 under 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, the staff of Bastrykin’s department did not include a number of investigators who were involved in high-profile criminal cases in the recent past. Thus, the following were not included in the Investigative Committee: senior investigator for particularly 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 dealt with the cases of defrauded investors of the Social Initiative partnership, the case of smuggling mobile phones the Euroset company and the case of raider takeover several enterprises in St. Petersburg in 2006-2007. All suspended investigators were given work in central office Prosecutor General's Office. An anonymous source in Chaika’s department told reporters that “such a decision causes nothing but bewilderment,” and added that the prosecutor’s office’s own security service, which has been in place for a year, officially does not have any 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 a practically 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 trying to take a bribe in special large sizes and abuse of power). 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 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 of Russian peacekeepers on the territory of South Ossetia. 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.” He compared the crimes of the Georgian army, which, according to him, invaded South Ossetia, “pursuing the goal of complete destruction of the Ossetian national group,” with “the atrocities of the fascists during the war.” In February 2009, at the final board meeting 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." On July 3, 2009, Bastrykin reported that in the case of the events in South Ossetia, the deaths of 162 civilians were 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 Baltic pedagogical academy. He is the author of a number of 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.

Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin – Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, General of Justice, legal scholar, Doctor of Law.

Childhood

Alexander Bastrykin was born on August 27, 1953 in Pskov. Regular working family, in which the future head of the Investigative Committee was born, nevertheless had a heroic history.

Alexander Bastrykin’s father fought on the fronts of the Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars, and was awarded the medals “For Military Merit”, “For the Defense of the Soviet Arctic”, “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War”. Patriotic War 1941-1945."

During the siege of Leningrad, my mother worked at a defense plant, and in 1943 she went to the front, where she became an anti-aircraft gunner, went through the battle route from Leningrad to Konigsberg, participated in difficult battles, for which she was nominated for military awards.

The Bastrykins lived in Pskov until 1958, and then moved to Leningrad. IN Northern capital Sasha went to a magnet school humanities and managed not only to study very well. His range of interests was very wide: classical dance, volleyball, playing the guitar, visiting a theater studio and a school for young journalists at the youth newspaper “Smena”.

Education

In 1970, Alexander Bastrykin became a student at Leningrad State University. It is worth noting that the competition for the Faculty of Law was 40 people per place, and Alexander entered on a general basis.

At Leningrad State University he became the head of the group. His classmate was Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The young people became friends.

In 1975, the future head of the Investigative Committee received a diploma and assignment to the police, but two years later he returned to his native university as a graduate student.

In 1980, Bastrykin successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on the investigation of criminal cases involving foreign citizens.

Career

Alexander Bastrykin’s career began in the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he worked as an assigned investigator and criminal investigation inspector. In the police, the future head of the Investigative Committee joined the CPSU and remained a member of the party until it was completely banned, i.e. until 1991.

After defending his Ph.D. thesis, Bastrykin taught at the department of criminal procedure and criminology at his native university. At the same time, he made a successful career in the Komsomol organization, going from secretary of the Komsomol committee of Leningrad University to secretary of the Leningrad regional committee of the Komsomol. Like most successful Komsomol functionaries, Bastrykin’s activities continued in the party: from 1986 to 1988. he was in charge of ideological work in the party committee of Leningrad State University.

It is noteworthy that information about the direct participation of Alexander Bastrykin in the expulsion of Boris Grebenshchikov from the ranks of the Komsomol became public knowledge, although Grebenshchikov himself did not confirm this.

In 1987, Alexander Bastrykin became a Doctor of Science, and in 1988 he received the position of director of the Institute for Advanced Training of Investigative Workers at the USSR Prosecutor's Office in Leningrad, which he held until 1991.

From 1992 to 1995, Bastrykin was the rector and professor of the St. Petersburg Law Institute, and in 1995 he headed the department of transport law at the University of Water Communications.

In 1996 - 1998, the chief investigator of the Russian Federation was deputy commander of the North-Western District for legal work, and then headed the North-Western branch of the Russian Legal Academy.

In 2001, Bastrykin moved to work at the Ministry of Justice, and in 2006 - to the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where, as a deputy prosecutor general, he oversaw compliance with the legality of the preliminary investigation. The position of Prosecutor General at that moment was held by Yuri Chaika and, thus, was Bastrykin’s immediate superior.

In 2007, an Investigative Committee was created within the prosecutor's office. The order to transfer 18 thousand employees from the prosecutor's office to the Investigative Committee was signed personally by Bastrykin, as the acting head of the committee. New structure, independent and controlled by the President of the Russian Federation, was entrusted with the direct investigation of crimes.

Bastrykin was appointed Chairman of the Investigative Committee as an independent structure on January 15, 2011. It must be said that the head of the Investigative Committee spent every month personal receptions citizens.

Earlier, in 2008, the Anti-Corruption Council under the President of the Russian Federation was created, which included Alexander Bastrykin.

The most high-profile cases of Alexander Bastrykin

In February 2008, regional prosecutor Evgeny Grigoriev was killed in Saratov. Alexander Bastrykin personally headed the investigation, which was completed within three weeks. The case was solved.

In 2008, the investigative team of the Investigative Committee conducted an investigation into the so-called five-day war - Georgia’s armed aggression against South Ossetia. The work of the group, which resulted in 500 volumes of the criminal case, was headed by Alexander Bastrykin. The case was referred to international Court in The Hague.

In 2009, the head of the Investigative Committee sharply criticized Russia’s migration policy, leading to an increase in crime among migrants, and a high level of corruption in the Federal Migration Service. It is worth noting that extradition issues were under the jurisdiction of the prosecutor’s office, and not the Investigative Committee.

In 2010, from the village of Kushchevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, there was mass kill, which received a huge public response. The investigation was headed by Alexander Bastrykin.

In 2014, the head of the Investigative Committee initiated criminal prosecution of Ukrainian officials accused of war crimes and genocide against the civilian population of southeastern Ukraine.

Injured while performing

On November 27, 2009, the Nevsky Express high-speed train was blown up, as a result of which 28 people were killed and 132 passengers were injured. Alexander Bastrykin personally went to the scene of the terrorist attack. While he was at the scene, another explosive device went off. The head of the Investigative Committee received a concussion and a moderate injury.

Books by Bastrykin

Despite his enormous busyness and successful career, Alexander Bastrykin always found time for scientific activity and writing books.

In three books by Professor Bastrykin: “Shadows disappear in Smolny. Murder of Kirov", " Ideal crime century or the collapse of the criminal case”, “Kirov’s murder. A new version old crime,” the author put forward his own version of the events that occurred in Leningrad in 1934.

In one of his interviews, the General of Justice said that he published some books at his own expense.

Scandals related to Alexander Bastrykin

In 2012, Alexey Navalny accused the chairman of the insurance company that Bastrykin owns real estate in the Czech Republic, is a co-owner of the company LAW Bohemia and has a residence permit in the Czech Republic.

Alexey Navalny about Bastrykin

Bastrykin admitted only that he had a visa and an apartment in Prague with an area of ​​46 sq.m. The head of the Investigative Committee said that the property worth $68 thousand was purchased by him in installments before the start of his civil service. Bastrykin sold his share in LAW Bohemia.

Personal life of Alexander Bastrykin

Alexander Bastrykin is married. His wife, Olga Ivanovna Bastrykina, works as vice-rector of the Russian Law Academy. Son of the head of the Investigative Committee Evgeniy, born in 1986 – Chief Specialist apparatus authorized representative President of the Russian Federation for the North-West.

Head of the Investigative Committee now

Bastrykin combines work in the Investigative Committee with writing books, actively uses social networks, maintains a VKontakte account, where he writes about the events of the Investigative Committee, about cultural life and famous people. The professor willingly gives lectures to law students.

There is information that Bastrykin writes poetry and publishes them on the website “Stihi.ru”, posing as the Polish poet Stanislav Strunevsky. The main theme of the poetry of the chief investigator of Russia is the activities of liberal politicians, presented by Bastrykin in an ironic manner.

Again Navalny sat down for a day / And our poor minds / Known bitterness and sadness / After all, he is our symbol! Ours is steel!

© Photo from kremlin.ru

The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, left his vacation early. It was announced to the department's employees that their former head remains with them. The Investigative Committee itself will also continue to function as before. True, the Prosecutor General's Office should soon have increased powers to control the activities of the committee.

As a source in the Russian Investigative Committee told Rosbalt, when Bastrykin decided to go on vacation, it was known that it would be long - until October 2018. At the same time, they said that its current chairman may not return to the RF IC. And the committee itself may cease to exist as a separate department. Therefore, pessimistic sentiments prevailed in the middle class. However, having celebrated his anniversary (he turned 65 on August 27), Bastrykin began work with renewed vigor. Almost immediately plunging into the “thick of things,” he went on business trips around the North Caucasus. “His early return from vacation was unexpected, while Alexander Ivanovich was in in a great mood. It was announced to senior employees that all doubts were left behind, Bastrykin remains the head of the RF IC, his powers have been extended. As I understand it, “extension of powers” ​​is such a figurative expression, I just had a conversation with Vladimir Putin, everything became clear,” a source in the Investigative Committee expressed his opinion.

A Rosbalt interlocutor familiar with the situation said that the conversation between the president and Bastrykin took place during mourning events associated with the death of Joseph Kobzon.

It was also announced to the employees of the Investigative Committee that the department itself will continue to operate and its transformation will not take place in the near future. Agency sources say that a “fly in the ointment” has been prepared for the committee. It is expected that by the end of 2018 a number of legislative acts will be adopted that will significantly expand the capabilities of the Prosecutor General’s Office to control the activities of the Investigative Committee.

Back in the summer, Rosbalt’s interlocutors (including those in the Investigative Committee itself) noted that until the fall (when the State Duma and the Federation Council begin work) the fate of the Investigative Committee remains uncertain. It was not clear in what form the committee would exist, or whether such an agency would remain at all. IN Lately Several options for the possible reform of the Russian Investigative Committee were discussed, in particular, the creation of a single investigative body on the basis of the committee, which would also include investigators from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and a number of other departments. However, the return of the committee under the control of the Prosecutor General's Office seemed most realistic.

Moreover, in February 2018, at a board meeting in the Prosecutor General’s Office, this topic was raised by the head of state, Vladimir Putin. “I ask you to significantly strengthen supervision over the investigation, at all levels,” the Russian President emphasized then. Soon, the Chairman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, stated that control of the prosecutor’s office over the investigation should be returned; senators fully support this idea.

The agency's interlocutors believe that the problems of the RF IC and its head arose due to internal contradictions, and, of course, corruption scandals. First, the entire leadership of the committee for Kemerovo region. Then they went into custody " eminence grise» RF Investigative Committee Maksimenko and Deputy Head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Moscow Denis Nikandrov. And then he moved to the pre-trial detention center and former head Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Moscow Drymanov is one of the people closest to Bastrykin in the investigative system.

German Alexandrov

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 medical fact, confirmed in addition by official documents.

The country's chief investigator, who has been secretly running his own business in Central Europe for many years; I don’t think I could dream of something like this even in a nightmare...

IN official biography Alexander Bastrykin has 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 it is 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 fell in love 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 of luxurious 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 visitations,” drawls a middle-aged lady coming out of the entrance hesitantly; 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; V 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 the 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 legal spouse chairman of the UPC, the mother of his two children and, in addition, as it turns out now, a companion.

However, when “LAW Bohemia” was first created, there was nothing reprehensible about it; in March 2000, Bastrykin still headed 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 both as the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District and as 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. According to 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 their son 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 father and son Shutenko 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 had 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...

More 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 the construction of American military equipment has begun at the Brdy military training ground. radar station- himself major center electronic intelligence 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. The 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 angels among current government there are no haves; 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.

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 the opportunity 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, too, having 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: from similar subjects anything can be expected.

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) will 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...

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