Karapetyan Sahak Albertovich General Prosecutor's Office. Sahak Karapetyan, a native of the Rostov region, was appointed Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia
The declared annual income of the Prosecutor General in 2015 amounted to 8,793,625 rubles. Yuri Chaika owns no real estate, but there is a GAZ-13 car (“Chaika”).
The wife of the Prosecutor General earned 7,590,000 rubles in 2015. She owns half of the apartment with an area of 203.6 sq. m and non-residential premises with an area of 175.3 sq. m.
The declared income of Yuri Chaika in 2014 amounted to 8.506 million rubles. The income of the wife of the Prosecutor General the year before last was 8.280 million rubles. [...]
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The richest in the prosecutor's office
The leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office (GP) reported its income for 2015. As follows from the declaration posted on the website of the supervisory agency, the wife of Sahak Karapetyan, who holds the post of head of the international legal cooperation department, earned the most among the employees of the State Enterprise and their families. She indicated an income of almost 43 million rubles.Compared to 2014, her earnings decreased by 2.9 million rubles. She owns two land plots with a total area of 1189 sq. m, two residential buildings (213.5 sq. m and 38 sq. m) and a garage, as well as shares in the amount of one third in three more plots (total area 11,926 sq. m) and in three non-residential premises (11,729, 5 sq. m). She drives a Mercedes-Benz G 280.
Her husband, who in December 2015 was expected to be appointed to the post of Deputy Prosecutor General, earned about 3.5 million rubles last year. He owns an apartment of 118.4 sq. m.
In second place in terms of income in the Prosecutor General's Office is the head of the department's manager, Sergei Sergeev. He indicated an income of 19.2 million rubles. He owns only an apartment of 105.4 sq. m. Compared to 2014, Sergeyev's earnings increased six times. At the same time, a land plot (1,500 sq. m.), a residential building (212.1 sq. m.) and a garage disappeared from the declaration.
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On March 19, 2016, it became known that the police of the Krasnodar Territory had completed the investigation of the case initiated on Lopatina's statement about the forgery of the Sahara Kuban documents. The Interior Ministry concluded that ex-wife The Deputy Prosecutor General had nothing to do with the “Tsapkov gang”. Tsepovyaz's wife, Natalya Tsepovyaz, also denied contact with the wives of prosecutors.
Prosecutor General and his deputies
[...] Deputy Chaika Alexander Buksman declared 4.9 million rubles. His colleagues also indicated a similar income: Nikolai Vinnichenko - 4.1 million rubles, Viktor Grin - 4.2 million rubles, Yuri Gulyagin - 6.2 million rubles, Sergey Zaitsev - 4.3 million rubles, Victor Malinovsky- 4.2 million rubles, Ivan Sydoruk - 5.5 million rubles, Sergey Fridinsky- 5.5 million rubles.Deputy Prosecutor General Sabir Kekhlerov, who recently retired, earned 4.2 million rubles, he still owns three plots with a total area of 6570 square meters. m, residential building (212 sq. m) and country house(215.5 sq. m) and parking space. Another deputy of Chaika, Yury Ponomarev, declared 6.8 million rubles, which is almost 2 million rubles. more than in 2014. An apartment of 32.6 square meters disappeared from his declaration. m and an apartment of 167.5 sq. m. His wife lost an apartment of 116 square meters from the declaration. m.
Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Gutsan - 7.4 million rubles. (3.1 million rubles more than in 2014). Together with his wife, Gutsan still owns a plot (1591 sq. m.), a house (220.5 sq. m.) and an apartment (159.3 sq. m.). His colleague Sergey Vorobyov earned 4.2 million rubles, which is 2.3 million rubles. less than in 2014. Chaika's deputy Ivan Semchishin declared 7.1 million rubles. Semchishin's wife indicated a residential building (225.8 sq. m), which was not in the previous declaration.
In total, employees of the Prosecutor General's Office and members of their families indicated in the declaration for 2015 an income in the amount of 775.3 million rubles.
Replenishment in the Prosecutor General's Office
M.S. Kekhlerov went to work in the Prosecutor General's Office as deputy head of the department. He declared income in the amount of 2.3 million rubles. He owns a plot (2200 sq. m) and an apartment (109.7 sq. m). The son of Deputy Prosecutor General Murad Sabirovich Kekhlerov, who since April 2013 has served as Deputy Prosecutor of the Tver Region, has the same initials.The declaration also mentions MP Sarkisyan, who holds the position of adviser to the Prosecutor General. He earned 1.5 million rubles in 2015. His wife owns an apartment (83.6 sq. m.) and a garage, which are located in Armenia. The same initials belong to Mnatsakan Sargsyan, who in 2013 was dismissed from the post of Deputy Prosecutor General of Armenia.
In the recently published material “Extrafiction” (“Our Version”, No. 5), we analyzed in detail such a sensitive topic as the attempts of Russian citizens to avoid Russian justice by hiding from it abroad. Unfortunately, when considering the entire list of issues related to extradition, we made a number of inaccuracies. To remedy the situation, we are publishing an interview with the head of the Main Department for International Legal Cooperation of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Sahak Karapetyan, who dots the i's on the difficult issue of interstate legal relations.
– Saak Albertovich, so how effective in last years Does the mechanism for the extradition of Russian citizens from abroad work?
“Statistical data best illustrate the current situation. International legal cooperation of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation is carried out with the competent authorities of more than 70 states. And every year it gets bigger and bigger. In 2008, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation sent abroad 517 requests for the extradition of persons - almost 12% more than a year earlier. So, most of them (284 requests) were granted, and the wanted citizens appeared before Russian justice.
Most often, it is necessary to demand the extradition of persons from neighboring countries. In 2008, 381 requests from the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation were sent to the CIS countries, and only 136 to non-CIS countries. At the same time, the competent authorities of the CIS countries satisfied 227 requests, and non-CIS countries - 57 requests.
The first place in terms of the frequency of extradition of Russian citizens is occupied by Ukraine - 108 precedents in 2008 alone. The second and third places in this kind of rating are also occupied by the CIS countries - Kazakhstan (46) and Belarus (21).
- Let's now move from the near abroad to the far. Does the principle “no extradition from the Don” apply there, or is this thesis no longer applicable to Europe?
- According to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, in 2008 "a radical change was achieved in relations, primarily with the states of Europe." The number of satisfied Russian requests by non-CIS countries in 2008 increased by more than a third compared to 2007, and even tripled compared to 2006.
Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland occupy the first places in terms of their number among the EU countries. Moreover, if in 2005, for example, Spain satisfied only one Russian request for extradition, and in 2006 it accepted three verdicts on the extradition of fugitive criminals to Russia, then in 2007-2008, Spanish colleagues decided to extradite 14 persons on the international wanted list to Russia . Another 14 Russian requests go through the stages of a multi-stage procedure provided for by Spanish law. Since 2006, only once did the competent authorities of Spain stop the extradition procedure of a person to Russia due to the fact that by the time the issue was considered, the statute of limitations had expired.
Establishing an effective mechanism for extradition is happening not only with the countries of the European Union. Positive trends have emerged in relations with the United States and Israel, where, after more than a five-year break, decisions were made to extradite persons to Russia. Only in 2008, 11 interdepartmental agreements and other agreements were signed by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation on cooperation with the prosecutor's offices or ministries of justice of other countries. Among them are Latvia, Argentina, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, etc. For comparison: in 2007, only four such interstate agreements were concluded. Three more draft cooperation agreements are fully ready for signing - with the Prosecutor General's Offices of Azerbaijan, Ecuador and the French Ministry of Justice. More than 20 cooperation agreements are under development - with the competent authorities of Brazil, Great Britain, Greece, Cambodia, Qatar, North Korea, Colombia, Luxembourg, Maldives, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, USA, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Croatia, Sweden , Switzerland, South Africa and Japan.
On this topic
- Do you want to say that all issues in the field of international legal cooperation are being successfully resolved?
- Not at all. We often encounter problems of unacceptably long execution in some countries of Russian requests for extradition and legal assistance. For example, in the UK they are considered from 6 to 12 months or not executed at all. 30 requests for legal assistance are executed over 5 years. In this state of affairs, when the deadlines for bringing to criminal responsibility expire, the human right to a fair trial is jeopardized.
Effective international cooperation in the field of criminal law is sometimes hampered either by differences in national legislation or by unjustified politicization. In addition, it should be noted the problems of interaction with countries with which there are no international agreements on cooperation in the criminal law sphere. Referring to this reason, Russian requests for legal assistance are denied, for example, by the states of Belize, the Turks and Caicos Islands, etc.
- Could you give the most striking precedents for the successful extradition of Russian citizens?
- With pleasure. For example, Alexander Zakharov and Martin Babakekhyan, accused of murdering Magadan Region Governor Valentin Tsvetkov, were brought to Russia. In March 2003, they were put on the international wanted list and more than three years later, in July 2006, they were detained in Spain. In the same month, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office sent extradition requests to the Spanish Ministry of Justice. In July 2007, Zakharov was extradited to Russia. Another defendant, Babakekhyan, applied to the Spanish authorities for political asylum, but was refused and in January 2008 was also brought to our country.
One more example. The Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against Murat Gasaev. As a member of the underground organization "Khalifat", in 2004 he participated in an armed attack on the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia. In December 2006, Gasaev, who was on the international wanted list, was detained in Spain. The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation sent a request to the Spanish Ministry of Justice for his extradition to bring him to criminal responsibility. Gasayev sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights, but he rejected it. The issue of extradition of the accused was discussed both during the visit of Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to Spain in June 2007, and at meetings of the Russian-Spanish working group on combating terrorism at the Russian Foreign Ministry. In December 2008, the Spanish Council of Ministers made the final decision to grant the Russian request. The transfer of the person to be extradited to a special convoy took place on December 30, 2008.
– Perhaps you can remind our readers of similar examples concerning the experience of extradition from other countries?
– Of course, for example from the Swiss Confederation. The Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against the General Director of a subsidiary of OAO Sovcomflot, Fiona Maritime Agency Limited (Great Britain), Yuri Privalov. According to the investigation, as a result of his actions, Sovcomflot, 100% of the authorized capital of which belongs to the state, suffered damage in the amount of at least $250 million. The profits obtained by criminal means were invested in the construction and oil industries, which means that they were legalized, that is, “laundered”.
In May 2006, Privalov, who fled from criminal prosecution, was put on the international wanted list, but was soon detained in Switzerland. At the end of December 2006, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia sent a request to the competent authorities of this country to extradite the accused, and in March 2007 - additional guarantees of legality and his rights. Three days later, on March 13, 2007, the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police agreed to the extradition of Privalov.
The defendant challenged this verdict in the Supreme Federal Court of Switzerland, but he dismissed the complaint. Then Privalov sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights. However, thanks to the close cooperation of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation with their Swiss counterparts, the Russian side achieved a positive decision. In June 2008, at the Zurich airport, Privalov was transferred to Russia, as well as the documents necessary for the investigation in the amount of 10 volumes (about 10 thousand sheets) from the Swiss bank Wegelin.
- We sorted out the extradition "from there". And how is it with reverse process? Is the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation always reliable in satisfying foreign requests for extradition?
– The extradition of persons to foreign states is preceded by painstaking work. For each material, an extradition check is carried out in close cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the Federal Migration Service and other authorities. The circumstances and motives of the criminal prosecution of this person, the possibility of prosecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, and political convictions are being studied. The decision to extradite is made by the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation on the basis of an assessment of the totality of the materials obtained during the verification.
Here are two concrete examples. In August 2007, employees of the Department for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the NCB of Interpol at Domodedovo Airport detained Israeli citizen Gal Klein Yair on the basis of an international arrest warrant. The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation received a request from the Republic of Colombia for his extradition on the terms of the principle of reciprocity. The fact is that in 2001, Klein Yair was sentenced in absentia in this South American country to 10 years and 8 months in prison. He was accused of teaching tactics, techniques and special techniques in the late 80s and early 90s to persons who, after this training, carried out terrorist attacks on the territory of Colombia - in particular, in the Department of National Security DAS. In January 2008, taking into account the extradition check, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation granted the request for his extradition to carry out the above sentence. However, Klein Yair appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, which suspended the extradition decision pending consideration of the complaint.
In October 2007, another foreigner who was on the international wanted list was detained at the same Domodedovo airport - Austrian citizen Alex Traun. The law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Azerbaijan charged him with the fact that in 2002-2004, Thrawn, being the head of the Garadagh-Cement OJSC, deliberately squandered the entrusted property in the amount of 204 thousand dollars. Soon, the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan sent a request to his Russian colleagues for his extradition. However, a similar request for the extradition of Thrawn also came from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice. As a result of consideration of competing requests for extradition, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation granted the request of the Austrians, and in January 2008 Thrawn was handed over to representatives of the competent authorities of this country.
- How do foreign colleagues assess the work of the Russian prosecutor's office? Are there many criticisms from their side?
– At the moment, we have practically no misunderstandings in relations with our foreign colleagues. Over the past two years, we have taken a very serious step forward in this direction. I can say unequivocally: the Russian prosecutor's office is respected, they listen to us, they come to learn from experience. Last year, we held an international conference of prosecutors general of European countries on the topic "The role of the prosecutor's office in protecting human rights and public interests outside the criminal law sphere." Many of the participants were initially skeptical about this topic. However, following the results of the conference, when we talked about our work in this direction, our experience was recommended for study in European countries. This decision speaks for itself.
Sahak A. Karapetyan
Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation
Biography.
Sahak Albertovich Karapetyan was born in 1960 in the Soviet farmstead of the Balko-Gruzsky village council of the Yegorlyksky district of the Rostov region.
At the end of the 20s of the last century, the grandmother and grandfather of Sahak Albertovich settled on the Soviet farm. His parents also lived there.
In 1974, my father took the family and moved to Rostov-on-Don. Sahak Albertovich went to the eighth grade already in Rostov-on-Don (to school No. 12).
Around the beginning of the tenth grade, a conscious desire to get a law degree formed. This choice surprised and puzzled the father. None of the relatives had a legal education and did not work in law enforcement agencies. Sahak Albertovich was persistent.
In 1978 he entered the law faculty of Rostov State University.
For a good study, the graduate Karapetyan received the right to choose any law enforcement agency as the place of his future work. Saak Albertovich chooses the prosecutor's office and in 1983 begins his career in the special prosecutor's office of the Rostov region (in the prosecutor's office for supervision of places of deprivation of liberty). It was incredibly difficult. But this work was a good start to gain experience and grow professionalism.
Three years later, S.A. Karapetyan was invited to work in the regional prosecutor's office.
He worked at the investigation site for about twelve years. All large, voluminous cases crashed into his memory for life. It happened that in the course of the investigation they were seriously threatened, especially during the period of work in the special prosecutor's office. I had to investigate cases against employees of the internal affairs bodies, mainly officers of the penitentiary system. The case of the head of the medical unit of one of the colonies was very difficult. For four years the materials on him lay in the prosecutor's office. The case was considered unpromising. S.A. Karapetyan was able to prove the opposite. A criminal case was opened against the officer who broke the law, he was convicted. The angry defendant, both during the investigation and right at the trial, seriously threatened to kill Sahak Albertovich.
Once the prosecutor S.A. Karapetyan had to act as a negotiator.
His classmate - an investigator for especially important cases of the regional prosecutor's office - lost his nerve. He got drunk and did not show up for work for a week, threatening everyone who approached his apartment with a weapon.
Sahak Albertovich came to him alone, without weapons. After about an hour of difficult persuasion, he agreed to hand over the weapon. In gratitude, the leadership of the prosecutor's office went to meet the request of Saak Albertovich - that investigator was given the opportunity to quietly resign from the prosecutor's office.
In December 1995, S.A. Karapetyan was elected a deputy State Duma RF from the Yabloko party. His main activity as deputy chairman of the security committee was focused on the field of lawmaking. He led about sixteen legislative initiatives. These were new draft laws, such as the draft Law on the Prosecutor's Office, and amendments to existing laws - on the police, on the executive bodies in the penitentiary system, on security, internal troops, etc.
In 2000, Saak Albertovich was appointed head of the Legal Support Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. Worked in this position for about a year. Then he is appointed senior assistant to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - the authorized representative of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
In the fall of 2004, due to incompatibility of views with the Prosecutor General, he left the prosecutor's office. After some time, Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika, then the Minister of Justice, offered him to head the department for legislative activities of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
At the end of 2005, S.A. Karapetyan was appointed director of the Department of International Law of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
In 2006, together with the newly appointed Prosecutor General on the proposal of the President of the Russian Federation, he moved to the Prosecutor General's Office as head of the Main Directorate for International Legal Cooperation.
For strengthening law and order, he was repeatedly encouraged, awarded state and departmental awards.
State Counselor of Justice 2nd class.
He has the honorary title of Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.