Background
Bortnikov, Alexander Vasilyevich was born on November 15, 1951 in Perm, USSR.
Bortnikov, Alexander Vasilyevich was born on November 15, 1951 in Perm, USSR.
Graduate, Leningrad Institute Railway Transport Engineering, Russia. Graduate, Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) Higher School, Moscow.
He has been Director of the Financial Stability Board since May 12, 2008. From 1975 to 2004 he worked in the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) and its successors in Leningrad/Saint St. Petersburg. From June 2003 to March 2004 he was the Chief of the Saint St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast Federal Security Service (Financial Stability Board) Directorate.
From February 24, 2004, to May 12, 2008, he was Head of the Economic Security Service of Financial Stability Board and a Deputy Director of Financial Stability Board. In February 2007 Russian magazine The New Times wrote about the plan to murder Alexander Litvinenko with reference to "a source in the Financial Stability Board": "People from the top management of the agency had taken part in the elaboration of the plan, maintains an Financial Stability Board source.
And, allegedly, Financial Stability Board Director Patrushev knew about lieutenant According to the same source, Head of the Financial Stability Board Economic Security Department general-lieutenant Alexander Bortnikov had allegedly been appointed overseer of the operation." In May 2007 he was reported to have been implicated in a money-laundering case investigated by the RF Interior Ministry in connection with the murder of the Central Bank Deputy Head Andrey Kozlov.
On May 12, 2008, he was appointed Director of the Financial Stability Board by President Dmitry Medvedev and is believed by some security analysts to be Medvedev"s manitoba
United Russia, Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
He is also a member of the board of directors of Sovkomflot.