Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of Russia Gennady Kornienko dismissed. The corresponding decree, signed by President Vladimir Putin on September 30, was published on October 3 on the official Internet portal of legal information.

“To dismiss Kornienko Gennady Alexandrovich, director of the Federal Penitentiary Service,” the decree says.

He held this post for a little over seven years, from June 25, 2012, replacing Colonel General Alexander Reimer of internal service.

On Tuesday, October 1, the fact that Kornienko leaves his post, said the deputy chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow Eva Merkacheva.

"Yes it is. He left after reaching the age limit, ”TASS quoted her.

Meanwhile, a day later, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied information about his dismissal, indicating that such a decree had not yet been published.

September 30, Gennady Kornienko turned 65 years old. According to TASS, this is the age limit for serving in the penal system for an employee with the rank of colonel general of the internal service.

  • Gennady Kornienko
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A native of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic for 20 years, from 1981 to 2001, he served in the state security organs of the USSR and Russia, where he left with the rank of colonel general. Then Kornienko became deputy director of the Federal Security Service (FSO) of Russia, but a year later he was appointed to the post of director of the State Courier Service of the Russian Federation. He held this position before moving to a leading position in the FSIN.

In 2015, Kornienko was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky. This state award can be received by citizens of the Russian Federation for special personal services to the Fatherland in the matter of state building, for many years of conscientious service and the high results they achieved in the line of duty, in strengthening Russia's international authority, the country's defense, the development of the economy, science, education, culture, art, health and other merit.

Personnel shifts

In addition, the decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated September 30 says “on dismissal and appointment to some federal state bodies”. We are talking about personnel shifts in law enforcement agencies.

According to the decision of the head of state, the following were dismissed: head of the FSIN department in the Vladimir region Andrei Vinogradov, head of the main department of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Republic of Komi Alexander Knyazev, head of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Kaliningrad Region Viktor Ledenev, deputy head of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Novosibirsk Oblast - Andrei Neupokoev, head of the main investigative department, and Eduard Sobol, chief inspector of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. In addition, Tomsk Oblast Prosecutor Viktor Romanenko and Voronezh Oblast Prosecutor Nikolai Shishkin left their posts.

At the same time, a number of appointments to senior positions were made.

So, Konstantin Aleshin took the post of first deputy head of the department of material and technical and medical support of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Colonel of Justice Alexander Bezukladnikov became the first deputy chairman of the SU SC in the Altai Territory, and colonel of the internal service Dmitry Gazizov became the head of the contract-legal department of the Ministry of Emergencies.

In addition, Nikolai Basov became the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Trans-Baikal Territory, Yuri Bobkin was appointed the head of the planning and organizational and analytical support of the FSIN. Oleg Kadochnikov took the post of Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

In addition, the leadership of the Siberian Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation was entrusted to Dmitry Kim, Dmitry Kozlov took the post of head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in Sevastopol, Yuri Lymar became the head of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Perm Territory, and Igor Romashkin was appointed head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Astrakhan Region.

At the same time, appointments for a five-year term were received by Konstatin Bukreev, who became the Moscow interregional transport prosecutor, and Vladislav Moskovskikh, who became the prosecutor of the Tyumen region.

Albert Kizimov and Mikhail Mokshin, respectively, were appointed 60 months to the positions of heads of the SU IC in the Tver region and the SU in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Ugra. For a similar five-year term, Anatoly Ukhanov and Bogdan Frantsishko were appointed, who became leaders of the SC IC in the Smolensk and Kurgan regions, respectively.