Issa Kostoyev
Issa Magomatovich 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]
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Early life
He graduated from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University with a specialty in jurisprudence.[3][4]
Career
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[5][6] and Smolensk maniac Vladimir Storozhenko.[7]
He supports the death penalty for serial killers and pedophiles.[8]
Awards and honours
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1982)
- Medal Veteran of Labour (1989)
- Honoured Lawyer of Russia (1997)[9]
- Order of Honour (2002)
- Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class (2007)[10]
References
- 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
- 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