“I have been engaged in legal activities and international criminal law for more than 25 years. During this period, my career has been inextricably linked to the international criminal law, as well as international and transnational issues.
In my professional career, I have always been guided by principles of objectivity, impartiality, and honesty.”
My candidacy comes with a wealth of experience in crime management, operational capabilities and in developing lasting partnerships for the purpose of making the world a better place to live in. The contemporary global security challenges we face today, cannot be successfully handled by one country or region. Therefore, if elected, I will not only serve the interests of my state, but also the needs and requirements of other countries in the community of nations. In 2016, for the first time in 30 years of the existence of the Interpol File Control Commission, a Russian representative joined it, what made it possible to implement a more objective approach to the consideration of notifications on the international search for criminals and protect the interests of all parties to criminal proceedings. In the course of work in the Commission, a constructive dialogue was built with other members of the Commission. Breadth of knowledge and practical experience enriched the performance of the Commission. During his work, he served the interests of the Organization and the priorities of the Commission.
In regard to this, I would like to submit my candidacy for the post of INTERPOL Vice-President from Europe for consideration and I kindly seek for your support for my candidature as a high-skilled professional with international law-enforcement expertise.
Born in the Kaliningrad Region in 1963
Nationality: Russian
Languages: Russian (native), English, Italian (both fluent)
Education: 1980-1985 –studied at the Military Institute.
2006-2009 –studied at the Russian State University for the Humanities, major in law.
1995-2011
■ service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, where I sequentially held positions of: Senior Criminal Investigator of the Division, Head of the Planning, Analysis and Information Section of the Organizational and Analytical Unit, Deputy Head of the Unit
■ Head of the Division for Combating Organized Crime, Drug trafficking, Arms trafficking, Antiques trafficking, Objects of Art trafficking of the International Search Department, and Head of the Division of the NCB Moscow.
■ Deputy Director of the General Department of International Legal Cooperation of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation
■ Head of the Extradition Department.
■ Prosecutor, Senior Prosecutor of the Major Cases International Cooperation Division (acting as the Department) of the General Department of International Legal Cooperation of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation.
■ Director of the General Department of International Legal Cooperation of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation.
■ I was appointed to the position of Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
■ Deputy Head of the Major Cases International Cooperation Division (Acting as a Department) of the General Department of International Legal Cooperation of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation
During my service I have been paying special attention to the issues of combating transnational organized crime, terrorism, drug trafficking, cybercrime, crimes against individuals, as well as combating economic crime and other related international crime.
While serving at NCB Interpol Russia, I had been personally organizing and carried out the procedures of extraditions of wanted fugitives to Russia from abroad.
Thus, in 2001, in Spain, in cooperation with the Spanish Police Service, I took part in the operation aimed at the arrest of the Russian criminal group leaders.
In Germany I conducted the extradition of a person accused of a murder. And I was engaged in the extradition of a founder of the largest financial pyramid scheme from Greece. Also, I was a part of the Investigative Team during the official visit of the Russian law enforcement officers to Greece.
In 2011, I was awarded the Spanish "Police Merit Cross".
Having got a valuable experience in the sphere of combating international crimes as well as knowledges of the international criminal law provisions, in 2012 I have joined the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, where I have built my career from the position of the Prosecutor of the Major Case International Cooperation Division up to the position of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
While holding my positions in the Prosecutor's Office, I have continued to perform my duties on the issues of combating international and transnational crimes, and I have also been in charge of coordinating all the activities of all law-enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation in this sphere. After that, on May 26, 2021 I was appointed to the position of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, where I had been
entrusted with supervision of the international cooperation activities of the Russian law enforcement agencies in criminal and other spheres.
In spite of the restrictions, imposed worldwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, in 2020 and 2021, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation has approved more than 200 extraditions of persons wanted through Interpol channels to foreign law enforcement agencies. Also in the first half of 2022 the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation considered 585 requests from criminal procedure and judicial authorities of foreign countries for the extradition of persons wanted through Interpol channels (458 compared to the the same period of the last year), and it was decided to fulfil 450 extradition requests for criminal prosecution and execution of court sentences.
In my professional activities, I do pay particular attention to the international cooperation through INTERPOL channels.
Since 1996 I participated in more than 10 INTERPOL General Assembly Sessions, as well as in the European and Asian Regional INTERPOL conferences and in the meetings of NCBs’ Heads.
Since 2012, being the Representative of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, I have participated in numerous conferences of law enforcement officers from different countries, I have made a lot of reports on crucial issues of international cooperation.
From 2014 to 2019 I was a Russian liaison officer at EUROJUST.
In 2016, I was elected to the position at the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL's Files, and entering in office, I took an active part in the discussions of all items on the agenda of the meetings of the Commission.
I personally participated in the Commission's Sessions at the INTERPOL Headquarters, both in discussions of the decisions taken in relation to issues, and in examination of complaints and requests from member-states, lawyers and individuals.
In July 2021 I headed the Russian Inter-agency Delegation which submitted a draft Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes to the UN Headquarters in Vienna to be considered by Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes. This document was developed under my direct supervision as Russian contribution to the UN Resolution No 74/247, 2019.
Today, being the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, I am also coordinating inter-agency efforts of the Russian law-enforcements in suppression transnational crimes. Since 2020 I am heading the Inter-agency Working Group on recovering assets from abroad.
