It was at roughly the same time that Krasnov moved to Moscow that the Investigative Committee emerged as an agency within the office of the Prosecutor General. Headed by Bastrykin, it quickly began to fight a turf war with its own parent organization, and a few years later, was spun off as a separate body.
Lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov describes Krasnov in the following way: “It’s obvious he was a really good investigator because it took him only 10 years to go from being a student to a major crimes investigator in the central office in Moscow … He didn’t get involved in anything that could harm his superiors or the country’s political leadership.”
Krasnov has had an extraordinarily successful career to date. Aged just 49, almost all his working life has been spent with Putin as president. He got his first job as an investigator in Arkhangelsk in 1997, and was sent to Moscow in 2005 for a major investigation into the att
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