Alexander Bastrykin
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Assumed
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27 August 1953
Pskov, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin (Russian: Алекса́ндр
Ива́нович Бастры́кин,
born August 27, 1953 in Pskov) is a Russian official, Former First Deputy Prosecutor
General of Russia, and former Chairman of The Investigative
Committee of the Prosecutor General's Office. Since January 21, 2011, he is the
Head of The
Investigative Committee of Russia.
INTERNET
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bastrykin
Studies
Alexander
Bastrykin graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1975, and
was a university classmate of Vladimir
Putin.
Career
In
2007, President Vladimir Putin established the Investigative Committee of the
Prosecutor General's Office, de facto independent from the Prosecutor
General's Office, and Bastrykin became its first chairman. The appointment was
reportedly instigated by Igor Sechin, wishing to retain his influence after the
dismissal of his close ally Vladimir
Ustinov from the position of prosecutor general in 2006.
2009
Nevsky Express bombing
On
November 28, 2009, as head of the Investigative Committee at the scene of the 2009 Nevsky Express bombing, Bastrykin
was injured by a second bomb and was hospitalised. The second bomb was reportedly
targeted at investigators, and was detonated by mobile
phone.
Threatening
the life of a journalist
According
to Dmitry
Muratov, Bastrykin threatened the life of newspaper editor Sergei Sokolov,
and jokingly assured him that he would investigate the murder himself.
Bastrykin and Vladimir
Putin in working meeting, 21 February 2013
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Scholar
Bastrykin
holds a doctor of law degree, and has published more than 100 scholarly works
in Russia. In 2007 Bastrykin was publicly accused of plagiarism, because parts
of his then new book "Signs of the Hand. Dactyloscopy" (2004) had
been rewritten from the famous book of German writer Jürgen Thorwald. In 2013 these
accusations were confirmed and supplemented by Dissernet
community and its founder Sergei Parkhomenko: it was found that Bastrykin's
book also contains an entire chapter from the book by Anthony
Summers "The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover" (in Russian
translation “The FBI Empire – Myths, Secrets, Intrigues”).
Secret
residence permit and real estate in the Czech Republic
On
26 July 2012 Russian blogger and anticorruption activist Alexey
Navalny published documents indicating that Bastrykin had a residence
permit and owned real estate in the Czech Republic. Mr. Navalny wrote that the
real estate holding and residence permit in a country belonging to NATO, a military
alliance opposed to Russia, should raise questions about Mr. Bastrykin’s security
clearance for work in law enforcement and access to state secrets.
Honours
and award
- Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"
- Medal of Anatoly Koni (Justice Ministry)
- Medal in Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Justice Ministry of Russia
- Medals "For Diligence" 1st and 2nd classes (Justice Ministry)
- Honorary Title of Honoured Jurist of the Russian Federation
- Order of Friendship (Armenia) (2016);
INTERNET SOURCE: https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russias-top-investigator-bastrykin-defends-death-penalty-35967
Russia's Top
Investigator Bastrykin Defends Death Penalty
May.
29 2014 — 19:34
The head of Russia's Investigative Committee,
Alexander Bastrykin, opposed removing the death penalty as a punishment.
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The head
of Russia's Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, has defended
the death penalty, suggesting it serves to discourage some
from committing extreme crimes such as acts of terrorism.
Speaking
at a meeting of State Duma deputies on Thursday, Bastrykin
opposed removing the death penalty as a punishment from the
country's Criminal Code, though he does not support it "as a general
practice," Interfax reported.
"But I think that it should be in our legislation
for the hypothetical possibility of its application," he said.
Bastrykin
cited the execution of the 2011 Minsk metro bombers as
an example of a situation where the death penalty served
a positive cause.
"Two people were executed and now the subject is
closed," he said,
newspaper Gazeta.ru cited Bastrykin as saying. "I
think Belarus will not witness such terrible events anytime soon."
Dmitry
Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalyov, both 25, were sentenced to death
by a Belarussian court in 2011 for staging a bomb attack on a
metro station in Minsk in which 15 people were killed.
In Russia,
a moratorium on the death penalty has been in place since 1997,
pending ratification by the State Duma on its abolition.
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