Yury Chaika

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Yury Yakovlevich Chaika (Russian: Юрий Яковлевич Чайка) is the current Prosecutor General of Russia.

[edit] Notable cases

On June 14, 2006 Prosecutor General's Office under Yury Chaika reported that it had reopened the "Three Whales" corruption investigation, a case in which nineteen high-rank FSB officers have been allegedly involved in the furniture smuggling cases, as well as illegal imports of consumer goods from China. Mass media revealed that the officials dismissed around that time had worked in the Moscow and federal offices of FSB ^[1], Prosecutor General's Office ^[2], Moscow Regional Prosecutor's Office, Federal Customs Service and Presidential Executive Office. Deputy heads of the FSB Internal Security Department also figured in the report authored by Viktor Cherkesov. The purge has occurred while FSB head Nikolai Patrushev was on vacations. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

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. [6]

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. [7], [8]. The leader of the gang, Vladimir Kumarin was arrested on August 24, 2007. His associate and member of Putin's cooperative "Ozero" Vladimir Smirnov was dismissed from his position of Tekhsnabexport director. [9]

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

[edit] Notes

^ Colonel General Sergei Shishin, former Head of the Internal Security Directorate of FSB and current Head of the FSB Activities Support Directorate, Colonel General Vladimir Anisimov, former Head of the Internal Security Directorate of FSB, Lieutenant General Alexander Kupryazhkin, current head of the Internal Security Directorate
^ Prosecutors Dmitry Shokhin and Kamil Kashaev who had prosecuted YUKOS, head of the department for Investigations of Top Importance Cases Vladimir Lyseiko, oversight directorates heads Alexander Kizlyk and Vladimir Titov