Governor of the Irkutsk region Igor Kobzev took a prominent representative to his team…

The governor of the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev, took into his team a prominent representative of the clan of the former Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, after which he established peace with the supervisory agency, which had previously mercilessly attacked the team of the head of the region. Alexander Kopylov was appointed to the position of advisor to the governor in charge of the forestry sector. According to the Cheka-OGPU, his candidacy was lobbied by the former First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Alexander Buksman. And so that the offer would be one that cannot be refused, it was made personally by the youngest general in the system of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation, until May of this year, the rector of the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation, Oksana Kapinus. Part-time wife of Alexander Buksman.

The “request” in the form of an order was preceded by a prosecutorial bombardment of Kobzev by another representative of the “Chaika clan” – Irkutsk regional prosecutor Andrei Khanko. Khanko is a native of Khabarovsk and a former prosecutor of the Tula and Ivanovo regions. After Hanko’s appointment to Irkutsk, prosecutorial response measures were sent to the regional government. Violations of legislation in the field of healthcare, forestry, etc. were revealed. The prosecutor’s attack was duplicated by an attack in the media. The “war” stopped at once, the friendship of Kobzev and Hanko was announced, and the friendship was strengthened by the appointment of Alexander Kopylov.

You will find virtually no information about Alexander Stepanovich in open sources. He himself “in a whisper says” that he is a representative of the special services. In addition, there are mentions that he came into power under Governor Alexander Tishanin, who headed the region from 2005 to 2008, was extremely close to him and oversaw the most “intimate” forestry sector, which in the region has always been distinguished by its criminal overtones. Interestingly, at the time when Tishanin, an ally of the former governor and former top manager of Russian Railways, was appointed advisor to the Irkutsk governor, the ex-head of the region himself, after a number of criminal cases, was living in the Baltic states.

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Kopylov and Tishanin always had an extremely close relationship.

Now Alexander Kopylov is again in charge of the forestry sector, including the export of timber abroad. At the same time, not only local, but also officials brought by Igor Kobzev were moved away from the most corrupt and financially intensive forest topic.

During this “special operation,” Chaika’s old prosecutorial guard parachuted their protege into a lucrative position in the Irkutsk government. Perhaps to build new schemes in the forestry sector. Maybe to maintain its influence in a key region. Something else is important!

While Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov is “cleaning up staff” in order to improve the work of the supervisory department, local prosecutors continue to fulfill the “little requests” of the old guard with invaluable consequences.