Nikolai Petrovich Tokarev knows a lot about intelligence. At the beginning of his career, he worked as part of a geological exploration party. Then his interests switched to foreign intelligence: Tokarev worked for a long time in the GDR through the First KGB Main Directorate. Subsequently, a senior intelligence officer was entrusted with the management of the country's leading oil companies.
Facts from the biography of Nikolai Petrovich Tokarev
The future top-level manager was born on December 20, 1950 in Karaganda (Kazakhstan). Behind the shoulders of Nikolai Tokarev is the Karaganda Polytechnic. He graduated from the institute in 1973. Specialty in diploma - automation and electrification of mining operations. After graduation, he participated in the exploration parties of the mining industry.
However, Tokarev was engaged not only in the exploration of natural resources. As the journalists found, in the 80s Nikolai Petrovich was on a long trip to Dresden, Germany, where he worked on the line of the Foreign Intelligence Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. It is known that around the same years (mid-80s) Vladimir Putin worked in the same department and in the same country. Sources of the Kommersant publication have information that, in those years, Tokarev and the current head of the Russian state had friendly relations.
Career Nikolay Tokarev
In the mid-90s, Nikolai Tokarev was the head of the Department of External Relations of JSC Russian-German Leasing Company. This enterprise was a subsidiary of Sberbank of Russia. Subsequently, Tokarev was part of the leadership of the state-owned enterprise for managing property abroad, which was part of the structure of the Office of Presidential Affairs.
In 1999, Nikolai Tokarev took over the leadership of Transneft’s security service. Then he moved to the position of vice president of the company and oversaw the block of foreign economic relations, projects outside the country, information service and analytical work. A little later Tokarev headed the foreign trade enterprise Zarubezhneft. Arriving at this commercial structure, Nikolai Petrovich made a number of personnel changes and conducted a detailed audit. The result of these activities was the identification of a number of fraudulent schemes that cost Zarubezhneft about $ 100 million.
