Petrov Valery Georgievich biography prosecutor. Power move. Interview with former Buryatia prosecutor Valery Petrov in his new position as Chief Military Prosecutor of Russia
Kommersant reports that the Federation Council at a plenary meeting appointed the prosecutor of Buryatia Valery Petrov as the chief military prosecutor of Russia. “The committee reviewed the candidacy presented by the President of Russia and unanimously recommended that the chamber support Petrov’s appointment,” the head of the upper house committee on constitutional legislation and state building Andrey Klishas.
According to the Russian Constitution, the appointment and dismissal of the prosecutor general, his deputies and the chief military prosecutor are under the jurisdiction of the Federation Council.
The post of chief military prosecutor became vacant in April after the retirement of Sergei Fridinsky.
Valery Petrov has served as prosecutor of the Republic of Buryatia since 2006
Valery Petrov was born in the Irkutsk region, received a higher legal education there and began his professional activity. It is interesting that in those years the current Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika also worked in the prosecutor’s office of this region. However most of Mr. Petrov's career was spent in the prosecutor's office of Buryatia. Here he went through all the steps of the career ladder: from senior investigator of the Ulan-Ude prosecutor's office to the head of the republican prosecutor's office - he took this position in November 2006. During this time, Valery Petrov received many awards, including a foreign one - the Badge of Honor of the Prosecutor's Office of Mongolia.
Kommersant’s source in the Main Prosecutor’s Office noted that Valery Petrov is not the first civilian prosecutor to head the department. Thus, in 1992, Valentin Panichev headed the Main Directorate of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for supervision over the implementation of laws in the armed forces while he was a civilian. He left the GVP already with the rank of Colonel General of Justice.
As the news agency Baikalmediaconsulting reports, the day before the president’s proposal was considered by two committees of the Federation Council, and both recommended approving the candidate. In his speech, Senator Andrey Klishas noted that many senators know Petrov well and unanimously recommend his confirmation in office.
After the speeches of the heads of committees, the head of the Federation Council took the floor Valentina Matvienko, who noted that the appointment of a person who has great experience work in the region and enjoy well-deserved respect there - this is a very correct personnel policy.
Senator Lyudmila Narusova wished Valery Petrov to pay attention to the state defense order, the abuses in the execution of which were described in the article by Evgeny Reznik. Valery Georgievich promised to pay attention to this sensitive topic.
As a result, the senators voted for the candidacy, and the vote was unanimous. In conclusion, the senator from Buryatia spoke Alexander Varfolomeev, who noted that Valery Georgievich Petrov is not only a professional in his field, but also a patriot who is passionate about the history of the Great Patriotic War, who helps restore monuments and published a series of books about the heroes of the Victory - natives of Buryatia. Alexander Georgievich also noted the close work of the Buryatia prosecutor with senators.
Valentina Matvienko congratulated the new chief military prosecutor on his appointment and presented him with the voting results. 
Photo (c) Anna Ogorodnik
On June 28, the Federation Council will appoint Valery Petrov, prosecutor of the Republic of Buryatia, as Deputy Prosecutor General-Chief Military Prosecutor
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Talk about the appointment of Valery Petrov appeared at the end of April, simultaneously with the resignation of the former prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky. According to conversations, even then the candidate’s name raised eyebrows. There were reasons for this - Petrov civilian, worked all his life in the prosecutor's office of not the most important region of the country - Buryatia. Compared to the venerable employees of the Main Prosecutor General's Office and the Prosecutor General's Office, Petrov looks somewhat exotic. Although, the famous “fighting Buryats” have already forced people to change opinions for several years, proving that they are warriors who can force themselves to be respected.
For us, observers, the story of the appointment of Buryat prosecutor Petrov to a high supervisory position is interesting because this personnel maneuver was caused by the combination of completely random situational factors that took place in a distant republic.
Valery Petrov headed the prosecutor's office of Buryatia in 2006. According to conversations, he has been one of the people close to the prosecutor general since the years when Yuri Chaika headed the prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk region. Petrov himself never spoke about friendly relations with Chaika.
The most influential person - this is how they characterize him in Buryatia. And this is actually an objective assessment of his work over the past 11 years. Not in all regions of the country could the prosecutor influence social and political life as much as Valery Petrov did in Buryatia.
As sources stated, “ Novaya Gazeta“In the government structures of Buryatia, behind the majority of political appointments, resignations, business processes, and criminal cases there was a single figure - the prosecutor of the republic.
The former head of Buryatia, Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn, governed little. The peculiarity of Buryatia is that it has specific complex structure informal relations and connections among the regional elite. And it's not about the national factor. The regional elite is split into numerous groups formed according to regional, family and clan principles. A clan can refer to people from the same area or even members of several closely related families. For example, in everyday life there are such expressions as “Kizhinga clan”, “Semeysky” and even “Matkhanov clan”. And all this simultaneously with the “Irkutsk” and “Bokhan-Osinsk” clans. That is, associations of people into conditional groups vary from several families to huge communities.
An important feature of the Buryat clans is a significant departure from purely ethnic content. None of the clans of Buryatia, including the Semeysky, focuses only on representatives of one ethnographic group.
IN last years Nagovitsyn in the republic, a serious conflict broke out between prosecutor Valery Petrov and the mayor of Ulan-Ude Alexander Golkov. By the way, it was at this time that clearly ordered materials about the “business prosecutor” appeared, and the collection of signatures for Petrov’s resignation was initiated. All the negativity that you can read on the Internet about prosecutor Petrov is precisely the result of the information war.
According to sources, in October 2016 it was decided to change Nagovitsyn. In January, the former head of the FSB of the Vladimir region, Igor Nikolaev, was transferred to the post of head of the FSB of Buryatia, probably specifically to limit the power of the clans. Many people were named among the candidates for the position of head of the republic. They said that the republic could be headed by Rostec representative and former deputy plenipotentiary Valery Khalanov. They called federal inspector Kholodov. Names were also named from local personnel.
But in February 2017, Nagovitsyn was replaced by Deputy Minister of Transport Alexey Tsydenov. According to experts, Gennady Timchenko (his structures have a contract for the construction of railway infrastructure in the republic worth about 29 billion rubles) and presidential aide Igor Levitin could have been involved in lobbying his candidacy.
According to the local press, prosecutor Petrov’s relationship with the new head of the republic did not work out. They said that Tsydenov allegedly refused to appoint Petrov the people recommended by the prosecutor. They also said that prosecutor Petrov was betting on the nomination of Senator Vyacheslav Markhaev, the former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Buryatia and the first commander of the Buryat riot police, as a candidate for the head of the republic. Today Markhaev heads the Republican Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. By the way, Senator Markhaev openly proposed in the Federation Council to check the consistency of Dmitry Medvedev’s income and expenses.
Without waiting for the active stage of the election campaign, the issue of transferring prosecutor Valery Petrov to Moscow was resolved. In April, Prosecutor General Chaika and the Presidential Administration made Petrov an offer to head the Main Military Prosecutor's Office. They say that Petrov himself refused this offer, but after several days of deliberation he accepted it.
The appointment of Valery Petrov to the GVP may have good prospects, experts say. Petrov is a tough and ambitious person, he has a strong grip. And in such a department as the GVP, these qualities will be very useful. Valery Petrov will have to complete the organizational transfer of employees to Yuri Chaika’s department, which is very painful for military prosecutors serving in the Ministry of Defense.
It must be borne in mind that Petrov will have to work on the territory of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the generals. Considering that almost all military prosecutors have come into conflict with ministers and their deputies in one way or another, Petrov has a difficult job ahead of him.
To summarize: the “Buryat transfer” virtually eliminated the conflict in the republic on the eve of the election campaign. Tsydenov retained and strengthened his position (this is also a plus for the Timchenko-Levitin combination). Yuri Chaika strengthened his position, virtually taking complete control of the GVP.
Sergei Shoigu did not gain anything from Petrov’s appointment, but so far he has not lost anything (considering that the Minister of Defense is under the control of military police, which took over part of the functions of the GWP).
Head of the Administration Anton Vaino, who successfully resolved the conflict without losses to the interested parties, and Sergei Kiriyenko are in a winning position.
My first interview in new position Chief Military Prosecutor - Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation was given by Valery Petrov, former prosecutor of Buryatia. He has appeared on the pages of " Russian newspaper”, talking about the work of Buryat prosecutors.Your firstTimofey Borisov.
— Valery Georgievich, sorry, right off the bat. But before I clarify for myself and for our readers who has now become our new Chief Military Prosecutor, I cannot help but ask, so to speak, about “in the heat of the moment.” The entire past week was devoted to the third forum “Army 2017”. The scope and abundance of new products impressed many. The Russian defense industry is on the rise, this can be seen with the naked eye, but there is often talk that the prices for this miracle product are greatly inflated. And the defense budget, although large, is not bottomless. Did your subordinates examine the exhibition, so to speak, with a professional eye?
Valery Petrov: It never hurts to walk around and explore, including taking children to see the power of the state. But seriously, we need to look more at the documents. Military prosecutor's office on permanent basis supervision is carried out over the execution of government contracts for the creation, production, repair and supply of weapons, military and special equipment. On behalf of the President of Russia, inspections of organizations executing state defense orders have been organized, and measures are being taken to reduce overdue receivables of the Ministry of Defense and other executive authorities.
This year alone, military prosecutors have submitted about one and a half thousand acts of response in connection with identified violations in the field of state defense procurement. Based on the materials of our inspections, more than a hundred criminal cases have been initiated.
— That is, you manage to return something to the state treasury?
Valery Petrov: We, together with military authorities, are taking effective measures to compensate for material damage caused to the state. This year alone, the total damage established by the final court decisions amounted to more than 1.3 billion rubles. In total, property in the amount of 994.5 million rubles was recovered or transferred to the legal owners of the state.
More than a hundred criminal cases were initiated after prosecutorial checks on the execution of defense orders
— The military budget is a fat piece of the government pie, tempting and, therefore, corruption-intensive. Many people have the impression that a significant share of these billions ends up in the pockets of defense industry generals. This is true?
Valery Petrov: Such a danger exists, so combating corruption remains among our priorities. Moreover, in the total array of illegal acts identified by military prosecutors, more than 20 percent are corrupt.
But I would like to clear things up. The Ministry of Defense fulfills all its obligations, therefore, when we talk about such crimes, we are primarily talking about contractors and everyone who revolves around the development of budgets.
Military prosecutors continue to identify corruption schemes in the execution of orders, including budget losses from payment for uncompleted work, various thefts and abuses.
The Ministry of Defense is fulfilling its obligations. Those who revolve around the development of the budget profit from the defense industry.
—Is this money lost? Will they be able to be returned through the courts or voluntarily? Will the country find out who led the criminal schemes?
Valery Petrov: Of course. The results of the criminal cases already examined confirm this. About 500 people have been convicted of corruption crimes.
Punishment is different. We have taken a course towards liberalizing legislation and a fine or multiple damages for a bribe, you see, is not the same thing as, say, a real sentence.
Valery Petrov: It’s up to the court to decide. According to statistics, more than 36 percent of convicted citizens were sentenced to actual imprisonment. I understand that now there is a demand in society for a more intolerant and tougher attitude towards corrupt officials and scammers who put their hand into the state’s pocket. But the point of punishment is not to lynch or shoot, but to ensure that the punishment is inevitable. We are working in this direction.
I am sure many people understand how difficult this is, because you know what kind of contingent you have to work with. And also, what amounts do your potential clients operate with, not only to steal, but also to pay off, if necessary. Although, judging by the criminal cases, say, during the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome, it is not possible to “get away” even with a lot of money.
Valery Petrov: It is no secret that the construction of the cosmodrome since 2012 has been accompanied by corruption scandals related to the detection of thefts. Naturally, all these criminal cases are under constant control of the military prosecutor's office.
All cases were initiated based on the results of prosecutorial inspections of the activities of the “Main Directorate of Special Construction for the Territory of the Far Eastern federal district» under Spetsstroy of Russia when using budget funds allocated for the construction of cosmodrome facilities.
10 people have already been sentenced, including to sentences involving long-term imprisonment. Another 4 criminal cases are currently under consideration. In two of them, against 7 persons, prosecutors from the military prosecutor's office support the charges in a group with representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia.
In addition, in the first quarter of 2017, the Main Military Prosecutor's Office took other measures aimed at protecting the rights of citizens. Including in connection with the non-payment of salaries to Dalspetsstroy employees involved in the construction of the cosmodrome total amount exceeding 365 million rubles.
-What is the criminal situation in military units today?
Valery Petrov: The number of manifestations of so-called “hazing”, which for a long time so tormented our army. The number of hazing cases decreased by more than 6 percent. The picture is the same with assault, that is, violence by commanders against subordinates, which also decreased by more than 17 percent during this year.
Over the past few years - and this year is no exception - the structure of offenses is dominated by ordinary criminal offenses. Today, three quarters of crimes in the troops are not related to military legal relations.
In this regard, the military prosecutor's office, together with the command, other law enforcement and control structures, has taken a number of additional measures to combat the most common offenses, which have brought certain positive results.
For example, the number of corruption attacks has decreased significantly, by more than a third, and crimes against military property and budgetary funds have decreased by a quarter.
The criminal activity of conscripted military personnel continues to decline - only every eighth crime of all registered ones.
At the same time problematic issues they remain in a state of crime, we see them and, together with the command, we take all measures to solve them.
The Prosecutor General's Office has placed the protection of citizens' rights among the priorities of the supervisory agency. Whose rights and how do you defend them?
Valery Petrov: The most important task of military prosecutors continues to be the protection of the rights and social guarantees of military personnel, persons discharged from military service, and members of their families, as well as civilian personnel military units and organizations.
Together with the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense, we make sure that people are paid on time and in full for their work. We help citizens in supporting their claims for forced collection accrued but not paid to employees wages, restoration of pension and other social rights of former military personnel and members of their families.
More than once or twice, attempts were made to appropriate the attractive property of law enforcement agencies, primarily land and real estate. Do such attempts continue?
Valery Petrov: We attach great importance to the return to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense and other law enforcement agencies of illegally alienated land plots, buildings, structures and other property, including those illegally in the possession of third-party commercial organizations.
For example, after the intervention of the military prosecutor's office of the Eastern Military District, land plots and the buildings of the Seryshevo-3 military camp located on them, worth more than 300 million rubles, were returned to the ownership of the Ministry of Defense.
The Main Military Prosecutor's Office has organized an effective interdepartmental interaction With border authorities FSB of Russia, internal affairs bodies, Rosrybolovstvo, and other bodies with the aim of decriminalizing the fishing industry.
In the first half of 2017 alone, military prosecutors of the Pacific Fleet and the Eastern Military District identified more than half a thousand violations of laws. More than 60 lawsuits have been filed in defense of the economic interests of the state; 57 cases have been initiated against violators of environmental legislation. administrative offenses, the damage caused to the state was compensated in the amount of more than 40 million rubles. Two poaching vessels were confiscated.
- Now, allow me, a common journalistic question: “Who are you, Mr. Petrov?” After all, you are not only a new person in the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office, but also in Moscow. It is known that your entire life was spent in the Irkutsk region and Buryatia, all this is on the Internet. But I don't mean your biography. Tell us about yourself.
Valery Petrov: I am not ashamed to say that I was brought up in the spirit of patriotism, since I grew up in the family of a Soviet and economic leader, war and labor veteran Georgy Innokentyevich Petrov. My grandfather Innokenty Petrovich marched from Moscow to Berlin during the Great Patriotic War, fought against Bandera in Western Ukraine, had many military and labor awards, Thanksgiving letters from Stalin and Rokossovsky. Mother Eleonora Matveevna - Honored medical worker, helped many people to be born.
I am proud of my ancestors, they fulfilled their duty to the Motherland with dignity, thanks to them I live, my children live.
— So, you were the first in your family to become a prosecutor? Why did you make this decision for yourself?
Valery Petrov: The choice of profession is due to the fact that since childhood I was instilled with a sense of justice and intolerance towards evil. Having graduated from the Faculty of Law of Irkutsk State University. Zhdanov, started his professional path from the fact that for four years he defended the interests of agricultural enterprises in the Nukutsky district of the Irkutsk region as a legal adviser to the production department.
In December 1983 he went to work for the prosecutor's office Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, was a prosecutor of the investigation and inquiry supervision department, an assistant city prosecutor, a deputy and a district prosecutor. Before approval for the post of Deputy Prosecutor General Russian Federation— The chief military prosecutor headed the prosecutor’s office of the Republic of Buryatia for more than ten years.
-Where did you start when you first entered the office of the Chief Military Prosecutor?
Valery Petrov: The military prosecutor's office, as an integral part of the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation, has its own specific tasks.
From day one, I study in detail the work that my predecessors have done, thinking about how it can be improved. I looked at the conditions under which officers and civil servants served, assessed the amount of work and the average workload per person.
At meetings of the boards of prosecutor's offices of military districts and fleets based on the results of work in the past six months, I went personally, met all the teams, looked at the places of work, the objects under supervision. We are preparing to adequately celebrate the upcoming anniversary: today marks 150 years since the formation of the military prosecutor’s office in Russia.
Let me congratulate you and your subordinates on your upcoming professional holiday. What do you think has changed in the activities of military prosecutors over so many years? By the way, it is known that in 2017 the military prosecutor’s office was reformed. What was it?
Valery Petrov: On September 1, 1867, by the Decree of Alexander II, for the first time, Privy Councilor Vladimir Dmitrievich Filosofov, who took an active part in carrying out the military judicial reform, was appointed to the post of Chief Military Prosecutor. Thus began the formation of the military prosecutor's office in the country.
Authorized by the Military Judicial Charter of 1867 to provide “monitoring of the protection of laws” in the Russian army, at various historical stages The military prosecutor's office invariably followed its main purpose - to be with the troops, forces and means of prosecutorial supervision, to contribute in every possible way to strengthening law and order in them.
Officers of the military prosecutor's offices were always on cutting edge. On the battlefields of the Russo-Japanese, World War I, World War II and other wars, while performing international duty in the mountains of Afghanistan, in the aftermath Chernobyl disaster, conducting counter-terrorism operations in the North Caucasus region, showing courage and patriotism, boundless fidelity to their official duty.
In the history of our great Motherland, the military prosecutor's office, being an integral part of the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation, has taken its rightful place in the unified centralized system bodies exercising supervision on behalf of the state over compliance with the Constitution of Russia and the implementation of laws.
Today, military prosecutors operate wherever there are Russian troops. In the process of reform carried out in accordance with Federal law dated June 4, 2014 No. 145-FZ, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation became government agency, which for the first time legally provides for military service. In this regard, officers of the military prosecutor's office were excluded from the personnel of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian Guard and the Border Service of the FSB of Russia and became military personnel of the prosecutor's office.
The military prosecutor's office is budgetarily separated from the Armed Forces, the National Guard and others. military formations and bodies in which legislation provides for military service.
To pay salaries and provide all types of material and technical support, the budget of the Russian prosecutor's office provides for appropriate allocations.
Security military uniform clothing, transport, communications, medical and other services are provided, as before, by the military authorities, but with reimbursement of the costs incurred by them from the budget of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.
The number of detected corruption crimes decreased by 14%
In this regard, there have been no fundamental changes in the “social package” of military personnel and supporting personnel of military prosecutors’ offices. Personnel continues to serve in the same regular positions as before.
The reform had virtually no effect on the structure of the military prosecutor's office. Military prosecutor's offices of military districts, fleets, Missile Forces strategic purpose, The Moscow City Military Prosecutor's Office and the subordinate military prosecutor's offices of garrisons, armies and flotillas continue to carry out tasks in the same numbers and in the same locations, including Russian military contingents abroad.
The Main Military Prosecutor's Office has created some auxiliary units for administrative, economic and financial purposes to perform the functions of support and mutual settlements with funding authorities.
Given the inevitable difficulties that accompany innovation processes, our citizens can be confident that the military prosecutor’s office in its new capacity will reliably fulfill its purpose and protect the interests of people and the state.
In conclusion, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate veterans and colleagues on this holiday. We wish them health and prosperity, for the benefit of our common cause in the name of the prosperity and power of the Fatherland!
On June 28, the Federation Council appointed Prosecutor of the Republic of Buryatia Valery Petrov as the chief military prosecutor of Russia. Conversations about Petrov taking this position began immediately after the resignation of the former prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky, who retired at the end of April. In Buryatia, this news caused rejoicing. And not because another influential person from far away will appear in Moscow. national republic. It’s just that a lot of people in Buryatia are ready to celebrate Petrov’s departure - no matter where.
Valery Petrov
Valery Petrov headed the republican prosecutor's office in 2006 and, according to Novaya's sources in the government structures of Buryatia, over the years he has become the most influential person in the republic. Because of the gentleness of the then head of Buryatia, Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn, Petrov was able to concentrate in his hands the levers of influence on all branches of government. As his enemies in the republic say, with the help of compromising evidence and the initiation of criminal cases (or the threat of initiation), he allegedly controlled appointments and resignations, the passage of money allocated for federal projects through administrative resources, allegedly influenced the outcome of elections and put pressure on the media.
Petrov is a native of the Irkutsk region, like the current Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. Petrov never publicly mentioned his relationship with Chaika, but, according to Novaya’s sources, they had a personal relationship since Chaika headed the prosecutor’s office of the Irkutsk region. Petrov attended family events of the Prosecutor General and is familiar with his children.
According to political scientist Evgeny Malygin, Petrov’s transfer to Moscow was planned long ago. The prosecutor was offered various options, including the position of deputy Chaika and head of the personnel department of the Prosecutor General's Office, but the appointment was postponed many times. As our sources suggest, either Petrov made influential enemies outside the republic, or Chaika’s own position as prosecutor general did not allow him to influence the appointment.
However, the position of military prosecutor was not chosen by chance: “Chaika’s son’s business is connected with military government contracts, and perhaps he needs a person who would not create problems with this business,” suggested Novaya’s source in the prosecutor’s office. “The previous military prosecutor did not suit everyone in this sense.”
There is one more factor. In February, a new acting head, Alexei Tsydenov, came to Buryatia - a young technocrat appointed by the Kremlin specifically for the gubernatorial elections of September 2017. As sources in the republic itself told Novaya ( see No. 67), the prosecutor, supposedly accustomed to absolute power, first of all handed over to the interim a list of people who supposedly needed to be included in the new government. Tsydenov refused. Petrov was surprised and began to press. Tsydenov’s team decided to make the conflict public and applied for a rally. All local media wrote about the rally, Znak.com published an article: “The new acting head of Buryatia clashed with an influential prosecutor.”
“They started calling editors with demands to remove the texts,” says Novaya’s source. “They always obeyed, but now they refused.” Petrov got scared and called Chaika. But it was Easter, Chaika flew to Jerusalem and could not help. Petrov panicked.”
As employees of the Buryat prosecutor's office say, the night after the rally was announced, the prosecutor did not sleep. Together with those close to him, he sat in the prosecutor's office, trying to understand who was waging a campaign against him and what to do if it meant resignation.
The rally did not take place, but the publicity had an effect: “Petrov received a call from the presidential administration and was told: stop interfering in politics,” says Novaya’s source.
According to our interlocutors, the Russian Presidential Administration is interested in Petrov leaving the republic and not interfering with the work of the new head Tsydenov. Perhaps a high appointment is a payoff for Petrov. The decision on it took a long time and, apparently, painfully for all parties - it is known that Petrov did not agree immediately. At the beginning of June, he told a Novaya correspondent that he did not yet know about his transfer to the military prosecutor’s office and had no plans to move to Moscow.
Petrov had enough enemies besides the new head Alexei Tsydenov. In recent years, he had a serious conflict with the mayor of Ulan-Ude, Alexander Golkov. In January, the former head of the FSB of the Vladimir region, Igor Nikolaev, was transferred to the post of head of the FSB of Buryatia - probably specifically to limit the power of the prosecutor before the appointment of Tsydenov (the former head of the FSB and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Oleg Kudinov were appointed on the recommendation of the prosecutor, the head of the Investigative Committee of the republic Vyacheslav Sukhorukov - also comes from the prosecutor's office). “They lived normally here,” says Novaya’s source in the intelligence services. — And then a new FSB agent came, and Petrov was not found with him common language. In May, a high-ranking FSB official from Moscow secretly came to the republic. Petrov was afraid that he had come to dismiss him, and even called Chaika in a panic. But it turned out that he came for completely different reasons.”
It became known about large-scale organizational and personnel changes that took place in the Main Military Prosecutor's Office. The first deputy chief military prosecutor left the department Andrey Nikulishchin, who has held this position for the past six years, Deputy Alexander Harutyunyan, as well as the heads of three departments. It is expected that they will be replaced by both nominees from the GVP itself and proven prosecutorial chiefs from the regions. Among the latter is the prosecutor of the Pacific Fleet Sergei Skrabets.
The reason for large-scale changes in the leadership of the SHG was retirement Sergei Fridinsky, who headed military supervision for eleven years - until the end of April this year. The successor to Colonel General of Justice Fridinsky, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika found in Siberia - in June he became the ex-prosecutor of Buryatia Valery Petrov.
After Mr. Petrov settled into the famous building on Kholzunov Lane, the generals who were part of Sergei Fridinsky’s team began to resign one after another. One of the first to go on a long leave with subsequent dismissal due to length of service was First Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor Andrei Nikulishchin, who had held this position for the last six years. Lieutenant General Nikulishchin gained fame as the initiator of a number of large-scale inspections, including internal troops Ministry of Internal Affairs, which revealed multimillion-dollar waste and purchases of low-quality products.
Then, according to Kommersant’s sources, the report came from the deputy head of the GVP, Alexander Harutyunyan, another veteran of the military supervisory department. The general, who was responsible, among other things, for the work of supervisors in the courts, held his last position since 2002. According to rumors, a report was also expected from the last, third, deputy chief military prosecutor, Alexander Devyatko, but in the end, the lieutenant general of justice, who came to the Main Military Prosecutor's Office only in 2013 from the post of prosecutor of the Western Military District, stayed and, it seems, made the right decision. In any case, Kommersant’s sources now call him one of the contenders for the position of Valery Petrov’s first deputy.
Meanwhile, under Mr. Fridinsky, Alexander Devyatko was involved in a major corruption scandal: the former deputy head of the internal security department of the GVP, Oleg Zub, named him among three dozen military supervisors who allegedly illegally received land plots in the near Moscow region. However, after Colonel Zub was sentenced to five years and six months in prison for fraud this year, the land scandal faded away. In any case, the investigation into the criminal case initiated in connection with him did not develop.
Why Sergei Fridinsky resigned. Photo: Gleb Shchelkunov / Kommersant
According to Kommersant’s sources, three major generals of justice also decided to leave the GVP: Maxim Toporikov, who heads the department for supervising the implementation of laws in the investigation of crimes; boss organizational management Chief Military Prosecutor's Office Igor Butrim, who oversees the press service, as well as the head of the department for supervision over the implementation of laws on federal security Vladimir Molodykh. The Main Military Prosecutor's Office and the Prosecutor General's Office refused to officially comment on the reshuffle, but unofficially, confirming them, noted that the personnel reform is being carried out as part of a program aimed, among other things, at rejuvenating the leadership of the main military oversight agency.
According to Kommersant’s sources, it is planned that most of the retired generals will be replaced by their younger colleagues from the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office. In addition, the department is looking for well-established prosecutorial chiefs from the regions. Among them, in particular, is the prosecutor of the Pacific Fleet, Sergei Skrabets. Last year, it was Mr. Skrabets who initiated the arbitration process, thanks to which the Ministry of Defense was returned an estimated 145 million rubles. a plot of land in the suburbs of Vladivostok.