Anatoly Wassiljewitsch Trofimow
Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Trofimow ( Russian Анатолий Васильевич Трофимов ; * 1940 in Bratowtschina near Moscow ; † April 10, 2005 in Moscow) was a Russian secret service official. He was murdered by unknown perpetrators in 2005.
Life
He joined the KGB in 1962 and finished the first faculty of the Felix Dzerzhinsky Academy of the KGB in 1966 . Until 1971 he worked in the KGB Department for Special Affairs in the Turkestan Soviet Republic . From 1971 he headed the 5th headquarters of the KGB in Moscow, which was commonly known as the " dissident administration ". Among other things, he dealt with the case of the Moscow grocery store Yelissejewski , which ended with the death penalty for the director Yuri Konstantinowitsch Sokolow in a show trial. The target spectrum of his activities included the Jewish dissident and later Israeli minister Natan Sharansky as well as numerous human rights activists such as Sergei Kowaljow and Andrei Sakharov .
In 1992 Trofimov became the head of the Ministry of Interior against Corruption and Organized Crime . After the dissolution of the Supreme Soviet in October 1993, Trofimov had the then Vice-President Alexander Ruzkoi and Parliamentary leader Ruslan Khasbulatov arrested.
Boris Yeltsin appointed him on January 19, 1995 as deputy director of the FSB and head of the Moscow branch of the FSB.
In February 1997, there was a question from Yuri Schtschekochichin in the Russian parliament , in which corruption within the FSB was an issue. Anatoly Trofimov was released shortly afterwards. The press spokesman for President Yeltsin justified this with "gross misconduct" in Trofimov's work. Many observers saw Trofimov's dismissal merely as a punishment for a scapegoat. In addition, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Trofimov's alleged investigations into reptile funds from Yeltsin's campaign department. Trofimov was said to have good contacts with commercial banks and organized crime at the time. A year earlier, his patron and head of Yeltsin's security service, Alexander Korschakow , had been dismissed by Yeltsin.
Over the next few years, Trofimov worked with other former Russian intelligence officials in various private security firms and private investigators.
On the evening of April 10, 2005, the former KGB general and his 28-year-old partner were shot dead by a masked stranger in the driveway of his house. The execution of the act suggests a professional background of the killer. Trofimov's four-year-old daughter survived unharmed.
After Trofimov's death
The British EU parliamentarian Gerard Batten quoted Trofimov in a question in the European Parliament on April 3, 2006 as saying: “Do not go to Italy, there are many KGB agents among the politicians. Romano Prodi is our man there. ”These sentences are said to have been uttered in a conversation with Alexander Litvinenko .
Litvinenko, who knew Trofimov personally, announced immediately after Trofimov's murder that it was a political crime.
Web links
- grani.ru dossier (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bastion of the bourgeoisie . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1983 ( online ).
- ↑ 2001.novayagazeta.ru
- ↑ news.bbc.co.uk
- ↑ Yeltsin's former bodyguard accounts . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 13, 1997
- ↑ english.pravda.ru
- ↑ europarl.europa.eu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trofimow, Anatoly Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Трофимов, Анатолий Васильевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-Russian KGB agent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bratovchina near Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 2005 |
| Place of death | Moscow |