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In 1995, he became first deputy Russian prosecutor general. He was appointed by then Prosecutor-General Yury Skuratov, his former classmate from Sverdlovsk Law Institute.[4] Following Skuratov's suspension, Chaika served as acting prosecutor general for a brief spell between April and August 1999. From August 1999 to June 2006, he served as justice minister.[citation needed]
On 23 June 2006, Chaika became Russian Prosecutor-General, effectively swapping jobs with his predecessor Vladimir Ustinov who took up the post of justice minister.[5]
A "Crown prosecutor" (likely a reference to Chaika) was mentioned in an email chain released on 11 July 2017 by the son of then Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, Don Jr, in regards to the Russian government and their alleged attempts to provide damaging information during the U.S. Presidential election of 2016. The email thread resulted in the Trump campaign–Russian meeting of June 2016.[6][7]
On 20 January 2020, he resigned in connection with the transition to another job. The resignation request is expected to be considered by the Federation Council on 22 January.[8]
On 22 January 2020 he was appointed Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to North Caucasus Federal District.[9]
Notable cases
On 14 June 2006, the Prosecutor-General's Office reported that it had reopened the "Three Whales" corruption investigation, a case in which nineteen high-ranking FSB (Federal Security Service) officers were allegedly involved in furniture smuggling cases, as well as illegally importing consumer goods from China. The mass media revealed that the officials dismissed around that time had worked in the Moscow and federal offices of the FSB,[note 1] the Prosecutor-General's Office,[note 2] the Moscow Regional Prosecutor's Office, the Federal Customs Service and the Presidential Executive Office. Deputy heads of the FSB Internal Security Department also figured in the report authored by Viktor Cherkesov. The purge occurred while FSB head Nikolai Patrushev was on vacation.[10][11][12][13][14]
On 27 December 2006, he accused Leonid Nevzlin, a former vice president of Yukos, exiled in Israel and wanted by the Russian authorities for a long time, of involvement in Alexander Litvinenkopoisoning, a charge dismissed by the latter as a nonsense.[15]
On 1 December 2015, Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) published a large investigation on Yuri Chaika, and his family. The Report comes with a 40-minute film Chaika.[19] An English version of the film was published two months later.[20] On 3 February 2016, the group Pussy Riot released a satirical music video titled Chaika, alluding to Navalny's findings.[21]
On March 15, 2017, the Ministry of Justice in Russia filed a claim with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation seeking "to declare the religious organization, the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses, extremist, ban its activity, and liquidate it."[22] Yury Chaika will be heading the prosecution.[citation needed]
In 2016 Russian punk music group Pussy Riot released the music video "Chaika", sardonically commenting on corruption in the Russian judiciary. The song itself does not directly refer to Chaika, but the music video features women wearing seagull masks or making hand gestures of a seagull in dance (chaika (чайка) is the Russian word for seagull). [26][27]
Awards
Order of Honour — for great contribution to strengthening the rule of law and many years of conscientious work (2001)[28]
Order of Honour — for significant contribution to Armenian-Russian cooperation in the field of justice (Armenia, 2013)[33]
Order of Friendship — for significant contribution to the deepening of cooperation between the law enforcement bodies of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation, strengthening and development of Armenian-Russian friendly ties (Armenia, 2016)[34]
Medal “100th anniversary of the Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan (1918-2018)” (Azerbaijan, 2019)[36]
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class — for great contribution to ensuring the activities of the President of the Russian Federation and many years of conscientious work[37]
^Colonel General Sergei Shishin, former head of the Internal Security Directorate of FSB and current head of the FSB Activities Support Directorate, Colonel General Vladimir Anisimov, former head of the Internal Security Directorate of FSB, Lieutenant General Alexander Kupryazhkin, current head of the Internal Security Directorate.
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