Alexander Bastrykin, head of Investigating Committee at the RF Prosecutor General Office
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Investigators Chief Doubts Efficiency of Russia’s FSI
Should the Federal Service of Investigation (FSI) is created, it wouldn’t be easy to ensure efficiency of its operation, said Alexander Bastrykin, head of Investigating Committee at the RF Prosecutor General Office.
The reason is the growth in investigating personnel from 20,000 currently employed in the investigating department to 120,000 that will work in the FSI, Bastrykin said.
What’s more, the FSI creation will drive up budget costs for maintenance of investigating bodies, the official specified, adding that this service will separate investigating bodies from services of operational search.
Russia’s equivalent of the U.S. FBI, the so-called FSI, is expected to emerge already this fall. The natural question is who will lead it. There are two frontrunners so far –Prosecutor General Office Investigating Committee Chief Alexander Bastrykin and head of Interior Ministry’s Investigating Committee Alexei Anichin, both of them are the university mates of President Vladimir Putin.
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