Meet the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP), an international non-governmental organization. It brings together around 250,000 prosecutors from more than 170 countries worldwide. It was founded in 1995 at the UN offices in Vienna.
In November of this year, the 7th IAP Regional Conference was held in Sochi. And who do you think opened it?
That’s right: Russia’s Prosecutor General, Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika. He is a member of the IAP’s governing body, the Senate. The Prosecutor General’s Office itself is also a member, as an organization.
If you go to the IAP website and want to learn more about the organization, one of the first things you will find is a very strict set of standards on professional ethics and accountability, as well as rights and duties. For example, these:
Prosecutors:
Now let us ask ourselves: does Prosecutor General Chaika meet the above criteria, having been credibly and evidentially accused of corruption and protecting criminal gangs, yet only managing to say in his defense—ten days later—this: it is a lie, made up by Western intelligence services?
Of course not. Therefore, in full accordance with IAP rules, the Anti-Corruption Foundation is initiating proceedings to consider the expulsion of Y.Y. Chaika from the association of prosecutors on the grounds that he does not meet its ethical and professional standards.
Below is the text of our letter to the IAP, and at the end there is a brief summary in Russian:
If you know English well and can write a polite letter in support of our campaign, that would certainly help; all the email addresses are included in the letter and on the organization’s website.
In our appeal, we inform the IAP about the results of our investigation into the Chaika family and the deputy prosecutors general, their criminal business activities, and their ties to organized crime groups. We also describe Yuri Chaika’s response to our investigation and his claims that the Anti-Corruption Foundation’s work is being directed by William Browder and the “U.S. intelligence services.” Under the IAP Constitution, the Executive Committee must review our appeal and decide whether to terminate Yuri Chaika’s membership because of violations of prosecutorial professional ethics and the potential harm caused to the IAP’s own work and reputation.