MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. Russia’s Federation Council on Wednesday appointed Igor Krasnov as Russia’s Prosecutor-General. The decision was approved unanimously.
Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko has praised Krasnov’s charateristics, describing him as "young and someone who thinks outside the box" who is also well-educated and has vast professional experience. She recalled that Krasnov had investigated a number of high profile cases.
"It is very important that the candidate for the prosecutor-general’s post is someone ‘from within the system,’ as it is often said, and not a political appointee. He is a self-made man, who has walked all the way up the career ladder from a rank-and-file investigator in the city of Kholmogory, the Arkhangelsk Region. In his day Lomonosov left Kholmogory to make headway in Moscow. Igor Krasnov, too, has steadily moved up to deputy chief of the Investigative Committee. Today he has been proposed for the position of prosecutor-general," Matviyenko said.
President Vladimir Putin submitted Krasnov’s candidature to the Federation Council on Monday. Krasnov, 44, Lieutenant-General of Justice, in his previous capacity of deputy chief of the Investigative Committee oversaw the Main Directorate for Special Investigations and the Main Investigative Department.
Krasnov has held different positions at prosecutors’ offices since 1997. In 2007, when the Investigative Committee was formed, he was moved to the IC, where he began as a special investigator under the IC chairman to eventually end up in the seat of IC deputy chairman in April 2016. Krasnov investigated such criminal cases as the assassination attempt against Anatoly Chubais, the murder of Boris Nemtsov, lawyer Stainslav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova and embezzlement at the construction site of the Vostochny spaceport.
Under the Constitution, the appointment and dismissal of the prosecutor-general and his deputies is a competence of the Federation Council.