Vladimir Alganov (Russian: Владимир Петрович Алганов; born 1952 in Sankt Petersburg) is a Russian spy. He was Soviet KGB officer in Warsaw, Poland in the 1980s and Russian SVR officer in the same city in the 1990s.
In 1996, Poland's Prime Minister Józef Oleksy resigned because of his links to Alganov.[1]
Alganov was deported from Poland in 1997.[2]
In 2005 Lithuanian authorities told that Alganov had been issued a long-term Lithuanian visa in 2002 and Alganov had met managers of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.[3][4]
In 2003, Alganov secretly met Jan Kulczyk in a restaurant in Vienna, Austria. The conversation was recorded by Polish intelligence officers. According to Antoni Macierewicz, a member of the investigative board:
Present at the meeting was also Aleksander Żagiel, Alganov's Vienna-based business partner.[7]
Alganov has ties to Peter Vogel.[8]