Yury Skuratov
Yuri Ilyich Skuratov (Russian Юрий Ильич Скуратов; born July 3, 1952 in Ulan- Ude ) is a Russian lawyer, politician, professor of law and former Attorney General of the Russian Federation ( 1995-1999 ). He is since 2007 President of the "Fund for legal methods of the 21st century."
Curriculum vitae
Work at the University and an adviser to the Minister of the Interior
He finished 1973 with honors his studies at the Law Institute of the city of Sverdlovsk. There he worked as a lecturer after his postgraduate and eventually became the Dean of the Faculty of Public Prosecutor. In 1987 he defended his thesis on constitutional issues in administrative law.
In 1989 he became head of the Committee on legislative initiatives and legal issues in the Central Committee of the CPSU. From 1991 to 1992 he was an advisor to the then Interior Minister Viktor Barannikow (see Council of Ministers of the USSR, 1991). He was appointed director of the Research Institute on issues of legal certainty within the Attorney General's Office (Russian НИИ проблем укрепления законности и правопорядка при Генеральной прокуратуре ) 1993.
Attorney General of the Russian Federation
From 1995 to 1999 he was Attorney General of the Russian Federation. After August 17, 1998, the Russian market bubble burst with short-term government bonds ( GKO bonds), Skuratov initiated an investigation against 780 state officials. They were alleged to have abused their positions and were jointly responsible for insider speculation and corruption, the national crisis. Among the suspects, among others, also Anatoly Chubais and the daughters of President Boris Yeltsin was.
Mabetex affair
Since April 1998, Skuratov working concretely together with the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office. At the time, signed Federal Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte in Moscow a memorandum of cooperation between the Swiss and the Russian judicial authorities. This was due to evidence of billions of U.S. dollars that were shed from Russia in Swiss accounts and were related, according to Del Ponte with the corruption of senior Russian officials. On 22 January 1999, the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office dropped the offices of the Swiss company Mabetex search. Here they found documents that confirmed the suspicion that the company had paid bribes for works contracts of the Russian state. Among the documents seized up credit card receipts denominated in Boris Yeltsin and his daughters Yelena and Tatyana, as well as documents of an account of Banca del Gottardo, for the Kremlin manager Pavel Borodin had the authority to sign and from where allegedly one million U.S. dollars were was remitted to an account of Yeltsin in Budapest. These details, however, were made known by a report of the Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera in August 1999. Shortly after the search warrant became the Mabetex in financial difficulties; the company asked for moratorium, which was rejected by the court.
Problems with Yeltsin and Video affair
Skuratov announced on 1 February 1999 to his resignation. He attributed this to " health reasons ". He rowed back again on 18 March and announced, but still continue after the Federation Council expressed in a vote for his whereabouts as Attorney General. Boris Yeltsin laid appeal against this decision, but without the consent of the Federation Council, there Yeltsin was not allowed to dismiss the Attorney General. Direct calls Yeltsin to vacate his place, Skuratov did not go.
These events were overshadowed by a video recording that was shown on 18 March by the government-owned station WGTRK. The tape had been taken apparently from a hidden surveillance camera. You could see it, a man who looked like Skuratov and amused himself with two women on a hotel bed. The man's identity on the film has never been judicially determined and Skuratov always claimed that it was a fake. Shortly after the publication of the scandal videos reaffirmed the then chief of the FSB Vladimir Putin in a television interview that the video is "authentic " and thus, in fact, Attorney General Skuratov was to be seen on the video.
On April 2, Yeltsin suspended Skuratov on the grounds that this was suspected to seek services of prostitutes paid by persons who ran against the criminal proceedings. Skuratov threw Yeltsin then before breach of the constitution. The Federation Council approved on April 21, again against a sacking Skuratows. He remained but this time suspended. After Yeltsin on 13 October did not get approval by the Federation Council a second time, the case was handed over to the Russian Constitutional Court. The court decided on 1 December 1999 that while Yeltsin should suspend the Attorney General pursuant to this accusation; However, Yeltsin should not override the decision of the Federation Council. On 19 April 2000, the Federation Council accepted a proposal of the now new President Vladimir Putin, the furloughed Attorney General to dismiss Skuratov final.
Skuratov stepped up to the presidential elections in 2000 and ended up with 0.43 percent of the vote on one of the last places.