Education
Alexander Bastrykin graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1975, and was a university classmate of Vladimir Putin.
Alexander Bastrykin graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1975, and was a university classmate of Vladimir Putin.
Since January 21, 2011, he is the Head of The Investigative Committee of Russia. In 2007, President Vladimir Putin established the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General" General’ s Office, de facto independent from the Prosecutor General" General’ s Office, and Bastrykin became its first chairman. On November 28, 2009, as head of the Investigative Committee at the scene of the, Bastrykin was injured by a second bomb and was hospitalised.
The second bomb was reportedly targeted at investigators, and was detonated by mobile phone.
According to Dmitry Muratov, Bastrykin threatened the life of newspaper editor Sergei Sokolov, and jokingly assured him that he would investigate the murder himself. Bastrykin holds a doctor of law degree, and has published more than 100 scholarly works in Russia.
In 2007 Bastrykin was publicly accused of plagiarism, because parts of his then new book "Signs of the Hand. Dactyloscopy" (2004) had been rewritten from the famous book of German writer Jürgen Thorwald.
On 26 July 2012 Russian blogger and anticorruption activist Alexey Navalny published documents indicating that Bastrykin had a residence permit and owned real estate in the Czechoslovakian Republic.
Mr. Navalny wrote that the real estate holding and residence permit in a country belonging to North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance opposed to Russia, should raise questions about Mr. Bastrykin’s security clearance for work in law enforcement and access to state secrets.
Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint St. Petersburg"
Medal of Anatoly Koni (Justice Ministry)
Medal in Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Justice Ministry of Russia
Medals "Foreign Diligence" 1st and 2nd classes (Justice Ministry)
Honorary Title of Honoured Jurist of the Russian Federation
Order of Friendship (Armenia) (2016).
Order Foreign Merit to the Fatherland 4th class.