Yury Chaika
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Yury Yakovlevich Chaika (Russian: Юрий Яковлевич Чайка) is the current Prosecutor General of Russia.
On December 27, 2006, he accused Leonid Nevzlin, a former Vice President of Yukos, exiled in Israel and wanted by Russian authorities for a long time, of involvement in Alexander Litvinenko poisoning, a charge dismissed by the latter as a nonsense. [1]
On January 16, 2007 Yury Chaika announced that the Tambov Gang had recently forcefully taken over 13 large enterprises in Saint Petersburg and was subject to an investigation. [2], [3]
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Yury Skuratov |
Prosecutor General of Russia April 2 - July 29, 1999 |
Succeeded by Vladimir Ustinov |
| Preceded by Pavel Krasheninnikov |
Justice Minister of Russia August 17, 1999 - June 2, 2006 |
Succeeded by Vladimir Ustinov |
| Preceded by Vladimir Ustinov |
Prosecutor General of Russia June 23, 2006 – present |
Incumbent |
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