Career
He was Soviet Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) officer in Warsaw, Poland in the 1980s and Russian SVR officer in the same city in the 1990s. In 1996, Poland"s Prime Minister Józef Oleksy resigned because of his links to Alganov. Alganov was deported from Poland in 1997.
In 2005 Lithuanian authorities said that Alganov had been issued a long-term Lithuanian visa in 2002 and Alganov had met managers of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.
In 2003, Alganov secretly met January Kulczyk in a restaurant in Vienna, Austria. The conversation was recorded by Polish intelligence officers.
Alganov offered Kulczyk $5 million to influence Poland"s then-President Aleksander Kwaśniewski. Alganov has ties to Peter Vogel.