10 Former KGB Officers Who Are Now Filthy Rich

Now a board member at Sovcomflot, one of the largest Russian state-owned maritime companies, Alexander Bortnikov is a former KGB officer done good (in a way).

Bortnikov was trained in Moscow, then worked with the intelligence organization before becoming the chief of the St Petersburg/Leningrad Region Federal Security Service (FSB) and later getting promoted to become first Deputy Director and then Director of the FSB.

Rumor has it that he and other high-up members in the agency were involved in the plot to murder Alexander Litvinenko in 2006; then, in 2007, he was reported to have been implicated in a money laundering scandal connected with the murder of Central Bank first deputy chairman Andrey Kozlov.

Managing a big organization might occasionally mean having to get your hands dirty, but that’s taking it too far.