The daughter of the former head of the GRU was appointed deputy head of the manager of the president – RBC

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin

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A new deputy head of the Presidential Administration appointed Olga Sergun daughter who died in January, the chief of the GRU Igor Sergunov

Putin has appointed Deputy Administrative Department of the President, Olga Sergun. The decree was published on the official web portal of legal information

Sergun already worked manager of -. Led the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Center of financial and legal security”, subordinated to the President’s administration. Previously she was deputy head of the department of legal support in the sphere of land relations City Moscow Property Department, TASS.

«Kommersant” called Olga Sergun daughter of the former head of the GRU Igor Sergunov.

Sergun died 3 January, Russian media called the cause of death of a heart attack. After several days of intelligence and analytical agency Stratfor reported that he died on January 1, Lebanon. A spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the report, saying that it “is not so».

In 2014 Sergun was included in the sanctions the US and European Union lists, in this occasion, the EU statement served “GRU officers active in the east of Ukraine.” In February 2015 Sergunov was awarded the rank of colonel general.

The president’s affairs until the appointment of Olga Sergun had three substituents, including first deputy. One of the deputies in 2015 was appointed Pavel Fradkov, the youngest son of the SVR Director Mikhail Fradkov.