Notable Cases
On 14 June 2006, the Prosecutor General's Office reported that it had reopened the "Three Whales" corruption investigation, a case in which nineteen high-ranking FSB officers were allegedly involved in furniture smuggling cases, as well as illegally importing consumer goods from China. The mass media revealed that the officials dismissed around that time had worked in the Moscow and federal offices of the FSB, the Prosecutor General's Office, the Moscow Regional Prosecutor's Office, the Federal Customs Service and the Presidential Executive Office. Deputy heads of the FSB Internal Security Department also figured in the report authored by Viktor Cherkesov. The purge occurred while FSB head Nikolai Patrushev was on vacation.,
On 27 December 2006, he accused Leonid Nevzlin, a former vice president of Yukos, exiled in Israel and wanted by the Russian authorities for a long time, of involvement in Alexander Litvinenko poisoning, a charge dismissed by the latter as a nonsense.
On 16 January 2007, Chaika announced that the Tambov Gang had recently forcefully taken over 13 large enterprises in Saint Petersburg and was subject to an investigation., . The leader of the gang, Vladimir Kumarin, was arrested on 24 August 2007. His associate and member of Putin's cooperative "Ozero" Vladimir Smirnov was dismissed from his position of Tekhsnabexport director.
| Legal offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Yury Skuratov |
Prosecutor General of Russia 2 April – 29 July 1999 |
Succeeded by Vladimir Ustinov |
| Preceded by Vladimir Ustinov |
Prosecutor General of Russia 23 June 2006–present |
Incumbent |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by Pavel Krasheninnikov |
Justice Minister of Russia 17 August 1999 – 2 June 2006 |
Succeeded by Vladimir Ustinov |
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