Dmitri Olegowitsch Jakubowski

Dmitri Olegowitsch Jakubowski

Dmitri Olegowitsch Jakubowski ( Russian Дмитрий Олегович Якубовский ; born September 5, 1963 in Bolshevo (now part of Koroljow ), Moscow Oblast , USSR ) is a Russian lawyer .

biography

family

Dmitri Olegowitsch Jakubowski was born in Bolshevo in Moscow Oblast . His father was a professional soldier and served in the strategic missile troops as a lieutenant colonel and engineer. He died at the age of 42 as a result of a doctor's error. He was buried in Sergiev Posad's Trinity Monastery .

His mother and youngest brother have lived in Canada since 1991 and are now Canadian citizens. Jakubowski's middle brother Stav Jacobi is a Swiss citizen, president and owner of the volleyball club VBC Voléro Zurich and lives in the canton of Zurich.

Dmitri Jakubowski is married and has four children. Today Dmitri Jakubowski lives in Russia and Switzerland ( Engelberg ).

career

After graduating from middle school, Dmitri Jakubowski entered the higher military school of strategic missile forces. After a year, since he was not allowed to study as the son of a Jewish mother, he was called up as a soldier in the Soviet Army . After finishing his service, Dmitri Jakubowski occupied various positions in the Soviet Union . Among other things in the public prosecutor's office , in the Gossnab (State Committee for Material-Technical Supply, Russian Госснаб СССР ), in the public prosecutor's office of the city of Moscow and as secretary of the management of the Bar Council of the Soviet Union.

In 1990 Jakubowski was appointed head of the Ministry of Defense working group of the Western Group of Soviet Forces (Germany). However, he was suspended from this office a short time later after complaints arose from the German side that he had been too active in the registration of property claims for the benefit of the USSR. Jakubowski then became the representative of Agrochim ( agrochemical company formerly the Ministry of Agriculture) at its subsidiary Fersam Ltd. in Binningen near Basel . After the August coup in Russia in 1991, he moved to Canada and returned to Russia in March 1992.

At the age of 28 he was an advisor to the Government of the Russian Federation , advisor to the Prosecutor General's Office on constitutional issues, advisor to the Criminal Service Department of the Ministry of Interior and deputy head of the main administration of Radiorasvedka, the federal agency of government relations and information of the KGB .

Dmitri Jakubowski was supposed to be the main representative of the judicial bodies of the special information services, but as a result of a conflict with the head of the security service of the President Alexander Korshakov and the future director of the FSB , Mikhail Barsukov, he was released from all his duties and expelled from the country. During the second coup in 1993 he took an active part on the side of the Russian president. In December 1994, he was arrested and charged with stealing books from the Russian National Library in Saint Petersburg .

While he was still in prison ( Kresty prison in Saint Petersburg ), he was sentenced again to 4 years in prison for "assaulting a candidate for a sports championship". Jakubowski spent this sentence in Nizhny Tagil in Sverdlovsk Oblast , in a special zone for ex-members of the judiciary and official bodies. He was released in December 1998 and rehabilitated in 2001.

Jakubowski worked after his imprisonment as a lawyer and defended, among others, the wife of the ex-mayor of Saint Petersburg and other important businessmen. Jakubowski also represented the interests of a number of shareholders in their battle against Alpha Bank .

He hosted the program "Arrest and Freedom" on REN TV .

In 2007 he started a partnership with the public subsidiary structure AFK (Systema) of Vladimir Yevtushenko. Since 2009 he has been a partner of VTB Bank, formerly Ost-West Handelsbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of VTB Immobilien.

Academic duties

Prof. Dr. iur. Dmitri Jakubowski taught at the Moscow University of International Law and Economics and worked at the Department of Law and Human Rights. He is the head of the Presidium of the First Moscow Bar College.

Web links

• Short biography (Russian)