Igor Korobov

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Person.png Igor Korobov  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Igor Korobov.jpg
Born3 August 1956
Died21 November 2018 (Age 62)
Cause of death
"illness"
NationalityRussian
Victim ofpremature death
Russian military officer

Employment.png GU/Director

In office
2016 - 21 November 2018
EmployerGU
Succeeded byIgor Kostyukov
Died in office

Igor Korobov was Head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU) from October 2016 until his death on 21 November 2018.

As the Russian GRU chief, Korobov had been dubbed by the West the "Novichok spymaster" and blamed as ultimately responsible for the Salisbury attack as well as the downing of MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 [1].

On 29 December 2016, Korobov was one of a number of Russian individuals sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for what it called "malicious cyber-enabled activities" threatening the national security of the US. He was nevertheless allowed to visit the US, along with other Russia′s top security chiefs, at the end of January 2018.[2]

Death

According to a source in the Russian Defence Ministry "Head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Deputy Chief of General Staff Igor Korobov died [aged 62] on November 21 from a serious illness".[3][4]

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