Ignatenko, Alexander Nikolaevich

Born on October 30, 1959 in Kharkov .

From 1978 to 1980 he served in the Soviet Army .

From 1982 to 1987 he studied at the F.E.Dzerzhinsky Kharkov Law Institute, after which he began his career in the prosecutor’s office as an intern at the Shchelkovsky city prosecutor’s office in the Moscow Region.

Later he worked as an assistant, senior assistant, deputy, first deputy of the Shchelkovsky city prosecutor.

Since November 2006, he headed the Krasnogorsk city prosecutor's office.

On February 6, 2009, by Order No. 99-k of the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, he was appointed First Deputy Prosecutor of the Moscow Region.

Chairman of the Attestation Commission of the Prosecutor's Office of the Moscow Region ^[1] .

Chairman of the cooperative "Silans" ^[2] .

Prosecution and Arrest

In February 2011, an entrepreneur Ivan Nazarov was arrested while investigating an illegal gambling business . Investigators revealed his close ties with Ignatneko. As a result, he was removed from office, an internal audit began ^[3] .

On March 25, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Ignatenko, accusing him of abuse of power, taking a large bribe (part 1 of article 285 , paragraph “g” part 4 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). However, on the same day, the decision to initiate proceedings was quashed by the prosecutor's office ^[4] . In the following months, cases were re-opened, which were later canceled by the prosecutor's office ^[5] .

Upon completion of the internal audit on April 14, 2011, Ignatenko was dismissed from the prosecutor’s office with the phrase “for violation of the oath of the prosecutor” ^[6] .

On May 4, the case of receiving a bribe ^[7] was again opened, and on May 5 he was put on the federal wanted list . According to investigators, Ignatenko received 47 million rubles ($ 1.54 million) for patronizing an underground casino in the suburbs. ^[eight]

In mid-May, a case of land fraud was instituted against Ignatenko ( Article 159 of the Criminal Code) ^[9] .

In June 2011, a well-known investigator of the Investigative Committee of Russia Denis Nikandrov petitioned the court to select Ignatenko’s preventive measure in the form of detention ^[10] ; in 2016, Nikandrov who went to prison claimed that the unfriendly actions of the prosecutor’s office, including the prosecutor Grin , were revenge for the " gambling " ^[11] , one of the main defendants of which Ignatenko was.

On July 13, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the former prosecutor in absentia. This decision was then upheld by the city court ^[12] .

In November, Ignatenko was officially put on the international wanted list ^[13] , although reports of this were back in July ^[14] .

On January 1, 2012, he was detained by special services in the ski resort of Zakopane in Poland , ^[15] where he entered with a fake Lithuanian passport ^[16] . By the decision of the district court of Nowy Sacz, he was arrested. In February, the court decided to extradite Ignatenko, and later the court of appeal confirmed this decision. The final extradition decision was made in November. On February 7, 2013, Ignatenko was extradited to Russia. The condition for the extradition was the refusal by the Russian side of the charge of fraud, which was carried out ^[17] .

Upon arrival in Russia, Alexander Ignatenko was arrested until July 1 ^[18] .

Ignatenko’s lawyers argue that procedural violations are allowed in the case of their client ^{[19] [20]} .

On July 1, 2013 he was released from custody ^[21] due to the fact that the deadline for his detention expired ^[22] , and the Prosecutor General’s Office did not sign the indictment in a timely manner.

In June 2013, Vladimir Solovyov noted, recalling an amazing detail about the prison tattoos of the prosecutor Ignatenko ^[23] , that the cynical attempts of the prosecutor's office to save high-ranking criminals from punishment “for a country's reputation, this is a wild blow! Just a terrible blow ” ^[24] :

And now, if you ask, does anyone remember at all what kind of case the prosecutors from Moscow Region were ? Well, maybe he remembers, perhaps, the classic detail - the prosecutor who had the tattoo “They are tired of walking” on his feet. So what was there? Some gambling houses, gambling establishments ... Someone paid for some banquets, right? Nobody will remember anything.

- Vladimir Solovyov , “ Vesti FM ”, 2013.

Ignatenko and his leader Mokhov were also known for their land scam with country land ^[25] . Employees of the Moscow Regional Prosecutor's Office told reporters about other egregious facts ^[26] :

How to relate to managers who often call a measurer for a salary of 80,000 rubles to their office, who sews expensive suits for them, ”says one of the employees, a source at the Moscow regional prosecutor’s office,“ while the measurer first makes a fitting in Mokhov’s office, then Ignatenko , and then in Urumov’s office. They could no longer go to the Gallery, La Mars, Ritz Carlton for dinner in the same suit. At the same time, Alexander Ignatenko always demanded from the measurer that the left sleeve of the shirt was a few centimeters shorter than the right.

- What for?

- So that on your right hand you could see a cufflink of a gold nugget with diamonds worth more than 70 thousand rubles, and from under the sleeve on your left hand you could notice a Swiss watch worth 400 thousand. He collects them.

- Cufflinks?

- No, the clock. His collection includes such prestigious brands as " Ulysse Nardin ", " Hublot ", " Vacheron Constantin ".

- “Where did the prosecutor come with cufflinks with nuggets?”, “ Komsomolskaya Pravda ” dated February 21, 2011.

In 2013, after extradition from a Polish prison in which Ignatenko spent a year, he was brought under guard to the cardiology department of one of the capital’s hospitals for examination. “If I didn’t know that this was a former prosecutor, I would have decided that a criminal authority had been brought to us - he communicates quite rudely and in characteristic jargon,” one of the clinic employees admitted to Izvestia ^[27] .

• Breastplate “Honorary Worker of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation”.

• Wife - Svetlana Ignatenko ^[28] , two sons.

• Gambling of prosecutors
• Corruption in Russia

• Ignatenko, Alexander - an article in the Lentapedia . year 2012.
• Ignatenko Alexander Nikolaevich (reference)