Viktor zubkov russia biography

Mr Zubkov once ran collective farms

Financial crime investigator Viktor Zubkov was little known outside, or even inside Russia before Vladimir Putin nominated him for the post of prime minister.

Speculation was rife that President Putin was about to replace Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, but as the Russian news website, newsru.com, put it: "Not a single politician, expert or political analyst forecast it would be Viktor Zubkov".

The people most likely to know of Mr Zubkov's existence, were the country's "oligarchs".

Viktor zubkov russia biography

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Since 2001, he has been the head of Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service in 2001, a body dedicated to rooting out money-laundering operations.

As such, he has been one of Mr Putin's key allies in the battle to control Russia's oligarchs, the powerful magnates who had made their fortunes during the market free-for-all which typified the era of Boris Yeltsin.

The two men first worked together in the city administration of the president's na