Yury Skuratov

Yury Skuratov
Prosecutor General of Russia
In office
24 October 1995 – 2 February 1999
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin
Preceded by Aleksey Ilyushenko
Succeeded by Vladimir Ustinov
Personal details
Born Yury Ilyich Skuratov
(1952-07-03) 3 July 1952
Ulan-Ude, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Yury Ilyich Skuratov (Russian: Ю́рий Ильи́ч Скура́тов; born 3 July 1952) is a Russian lawyer and politician.

Skuratov was born in Ulan-Ude. From 1995 until 1999, he was Prosecutor General of Russia. In February 1999, he disclosed the existence of FIMACO.[1]

In April 1999, then FSB Chief Vladimir Putin and Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin held a televised press conference in which they discussed a video that had aired nationwide March 17 on the state-controlled Russia TV channel which showed a naked man very similar to Skuratov, in bed with two young women.[2] This video was released after he began looking into charges of corruption by President Boris Yeltsin and his associates and the video itself is said to serve as kompromat.[3]

In 2000, he took part in the Russian presidential elections.

References and notes

  1. ↑ Follow The Money – The Latest Kremlin Scandal Involves Billions Of Dollars Moving Offshore—Plus Sex And Videotape. Newsweek
  2. ↑ Litvinenko, Alexander (5 July 2006). "The Kremlin Pedophile". Chechenpress. Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 14 December 2008.
  3. ↑ Hodge, Nathan; Grove, Thomas (11 January 2017). "Trump Dossier Spotlights Russian History of 'Kompromat'". The Wall Street Journal. Moscow. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  • Persons – NUPI, biography from the Norwegian Centre for Russian Studies
  • Yury Skuratov, The Moscow Times, 22 March 2000. (subscription required)
  • Скуратов (in Russian). Archived from the original on 8 October 2006.
  • Скуратов Юрий Ильич (in Russian). Archived from the original on 10 February 2007.


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