Ain Seppik

Ain Seppik (born March 12, 1952 in Tallinn ) is an Estonian politician.

Life, law, politics

Ain Seppik graduated from school in Märjamaa in 1972 . He then studied law at Tartu State University until 1977 .

From 1976 to 1992 Seppik worked as a public prosecutor and judge in several positions in the Estonian SSR . After Estonian independence was regained, he held various managerial posts in the newly established Estonian police force from 1992. In 1995 he became a close associate of the then Interior Minister and former Prime Minister Edgar Savisaar . From 1995 to 1997 Seppik was the head of the Estonian Police Department. From 1997 to 2001 he worked in the private sector. He founded u. a. his own law firm.

In addition, Seppik was also politically active. From 1998 he belonged to the Estonian Center Party ( Eesti Keskerakond ). From 1999 he was a member of Tallinn City Council.

At the end of January 2002, Seppik became Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Estonia in the cabinet of Prime Minister Siim Kallas . At the beginning of 2003, Seppik had to resign when it was proven that he was involved in the conviction of 16 to 19-year-old youths in the mid-1980s. They had sprayed anti-Soviet graffiti in Tallinn. The Supreme Court of the Estonian SSR, of which Seppik was a criminal judge, sentenced her in 1985 to several years in prison.

After his resignation, Seppik was a member of the Estonian Parliament ( Riigikogu ) from March 2003 to 2011 . In 2012 he resigned from the Estonian Center Party - together with seven other top politicians. A year later he joined the liberal reform party ( Eesti Reformierkond ). In the 2015 parliamentary election , he ran unsuccessfully on the Reform Party's list. He remains a member of Tallinn City Council.

Private life

Ain Seppik is married to the Estonian lawyer Malle Seppik (* 1953). His wife has been a judge at the Estonian State Court since 2014 . The couple have two sons.

Web links

• CV (Estonian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Postimees, June 27, 2013