Sergey Anatolyevich Storchak is a well-known Russian politician, since 2005 he has been working as the Minister of Finance of our country. He is one of the best minds of the Russian Federation, a person who graduated from MGIMO, speaks excellent English and French, and has put many years of his life in the service of Russia.
Storchak Sergey Anatolyevich: biography
The politician was born in 1954, June 8, on the territory of modern Ukraine, to be more precise, in a small regional center - the city of Olevsk, which is located in the Zhytomyr region.
Before entering a prestigious Moscow university, then a young guy was trying to work as a transporter at the Krasnodar Oil and Fat Plant in the period from September 1971 to October 1972. But in November he was drafted into the army, where he served three years. At the end of his service in the Soviet Army, Sergey Storchak goes to work at Mosstroy-29, where he works as a worker in the field of transport of the second category.
In September 1976, he began his studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he successfully received his education for five years.
From 1981 to 1988, Strochak worked at the Institute of World Economy of the USSR as a junior, and then as a chief research fellow.
The beginning of a political career
From December 1988 to February 1992, Storchak Sergey Anatolyevich (whose contacts are confidential information) holds a position at the UN Office and other international organizations. He also works in the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For two years (1992 - 1994), the same posts, but already in the Russian Federation, have been occupied by Sergey Anatolyevich Storchak. The Ministry of Finance has become a job for the politician for a period of four years. Sergey Anatolyevich also works as Deputy and Head of Division of the Department of External Credit and Foreign Debt.
- For six years (1998-2004) he is Deputy Chairman of the Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of Russia.
- In September 2004, Sergey Storchak became Director of the MFI Department.
- In November 2005 - Deputy A. Kudrina.
- In June 2006, he became the representative of the Russian Federation on the board of the Russian-Kazakh Eurasian Development Bank (EDB).
The criminal case against Storchak
The policy was detained in 2007 in mid-November by officers of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office and the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
A search of Storchak’s apartment was carried out, as a result of which one million dollars were found and arrested. This money was later recognized to have been obtained legally and returned to its rightful owner.
According to Storchak’s lawyer, this amount was earned by him when he occupied a position at Vnesheconombank and was intended to buy a house in the country.
After a week, Storchak was charged under Articles 30 and 159 of the Criminal Code of Russia “Attempted fraud committed on a very large scale by an organized group”.
Simply put, Storchak, along with Viktor Zakharov and Vadim Volkov, was suspected of creating a group to steal large sums of money from the budget of the Russian Federation under the guise of settling the debt of the Republic of Algeria, which Sodexim owed $ 43.4 million.
From November 2007 to October 2008, Storchak was detained in Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, and then he and other persons involved in the case were released on bail. During the investigative actions, the politician was dismissed from the post of Deputy Governor of the European Bank. One person who vouched and supported politics was the Minister of Finance - A. Kudrin.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation decided to change the measure of restraint for all the accused, since the investigation was completed and the defendants in the case could not affect its results.
And at the end of January 2011 the criminal prosecution was stopped because there were no crime events. At the end of April 2008, Storchak was fired from his post as deputy manager at the EBRD from Russia.
The politician did not receive material compensation for moral damage and unjustified detention for a long time, since he did not demand it.
Career continuation
After his release, Storchak went on vacation, and in March 2011 became Minister of Finance, he was appointed A. Kudrin to the position of supervisor of the Department of International Financial Relations, integration into the CIS and EurAsEC.
After a couple of months, Storchak replaced D. Pankin as deputy manager at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from the Russian Federation, the politician became deputy representative on the Board of the International Bank from the Russian Federation. In May 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin reapproved Storchak.
Awards and Merits
For his many years of diligent political activity, Storchak Sergey Anatolyevich received several awards:
- In 2000, he was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the second degree.
- In 2006, Sergei Storchak’s biography was replenished with gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation.
- And the very next year, the politician was awarded the Order of Friendship.
Storchak Sergey is a deeply religious person who professes Orthodoxy. Even while serving a sentence in a pre-trial detention center, a politician visited a local church and often communed.
This person, in addition to active political activity, is engaged in pedagogy, he is the author of two books on the topic of financial policy.
