Full name:
Tokarev Nikolay
Tokarev Nikolay Date of Birth
20 December 1950
Tokarev Nikolay Citizenship
Russia
Tokarev Nikolay Professional field/official position
Chairman and President of Transneft (2007 – to date), retired major general of the FSB.
Tokarev Nikolay biography
TOKAREV Nikolay Petrovich (b. 1950 in Karaganda) graduated from the Karaganda Polytechnic Institute with a degree in electrification and automation of mining in 1973. For several years, he worked at mining enterprises in Kazakhstan, where his task was to monitor anti-Soviet sentiments among workers and to prevent the disclosure of classified information.
- In 1978, Tokarev enrolled in a two-year study at the KGB Higher School in Moscow. He began his career in the Main Directorate of the KGB, and soon after graduating from the Higher School in the early 1980s, he was transferred to East Germany. There he met and patronized Vladimir Putin, who arrived in Dresden in 1985.
- In 1990, Putin returned to Leningrad, while Tokarev remained in Germany for another year and was transferred to Berlin to “monitor the behavior of employees.”
From 1993 to 1996, Tokarev headed the department of external relations at the Russian-German Leasing Company, a subsidiary of Sberbank. Then, at the suggestion of Putin, he became deputy general director of the state-owned enterprise for managing the property of the Office of the President of Russia abroad. Since the summer of 1999, Tokarev has been the head of the security service, then vice president of Transneft. He oversaw the foreign-economic bloc, foreign projects, and analytical work. With the election of Putin to the presidency, Tokarev received the post of General Director of Zarubezhneft. - In 2007, he was appointed Director of Transneft, the world’s largest pipeline company, which pumps about 90% of Russian oil and 26% of its refined products and is owned by the state.
Tokarev Nikolay crimes:
Carrying out political repression, cross-border corruption, nepotism.
Once a communist informer Nikolai Tokarev, thanks to his former colleague, became the head of the world’s largest oil pipeline corporation. It is noteworthy how quickly Putin has placed his closest colleagues and associates in key places in state-commercial structures since he arrived in the Kremlin. Tokarev is one of the most important members of the ruling group. The flow of petrodollars, which have been under their control for twenty years, serves primarily to maintain the regime’s power, strengthen and enrich it, and spread its corrupt influence outside the country.
