Issa Magometovich Kostoyev (Russian: Исса́ Магоме́тович Косто́ев; born August 8, 1942) is a Russian government attorney and bureaucrat. He was the representative in the Federation Council from the executive body of state power of the Republic of Ingushetia (2002–2009),[1] and a member of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security and Commission on Natural Monopolies. State Counselor of Justice 2 classes.[2]
Early life edit
Born in Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic he and his parents were deported soon after his birth to Gulag in Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.[3]
He graduated from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University with a specialty in jurisprudence.[4][5]
Career edit
Kostoyev began working in the prosecutor's offices of North Ossetia, the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the prosecutor's office of the USSR and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. He headed investigative groups that engaged in the search for Rostov maniac Andrei Chikatilo[6][7] and Smolensk maniac Vladimir Storozhenko.[8]
He supports the death penalty for serial killers and pedophiles.[9]
Awards and honours edit
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1982)
- Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1989)
- Honoured Lawyer of Russia (1997)[10]
- Order of Honour (2002)
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (2007)[11]
- Order of Friendship (2022)
- In his book "A Most Wanted Man" John le Carré gave the name Issa to his Chechen character in it after Issa Kostoev.[12]
References edit
- ^ Исса Костоев, в 1973—1992 годах — старший следователь по особо важным делам; в 1996—2002 годах — начальник международно-правового управления Генеральной прокуратуры России // Kommersant
- ^ Decree President of the Russian Federation of June 20, 1996 No. 960
- ^ John le Carré, "The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life", Penguin Random House UK, Hardback ISBN 978-0-241-25755-5, 2016, p. 157
- ^ Почему чем опаснее преступление, тем неуязвимее преступник // Российская Федерация сегодня, 2003
- ^ Исса Костоев. Следователь, раскрывший «дело Чикатило», вырос в Казахстане
- ^ Исса Костоев — человек, который поймал Чикатило
- ^ Он раскрыл дело Чикатило
- ^ Смоленский душитель Владимир Стороженкo
- ^ Исса Костоев: расстреливать надо
- ^ Decree President of the Russian Federation of January 9, 1997 No. 4
- ^ President of the Russian Federation No. 1762
- ^ John le Carré, "The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life", Penguin Random House UK, Hardback ISBN 978-0-241-25755-5, 2016, p.160
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