Top KGB Officer Dies

• 26.11.2024, 14:28

He was 62 years old.

Former regional KGB chief Ivan Korzh has died.

He was 62 years old, reports Homelskaya Prauda.

Ivan Korzh was born in the village of Novasiolki, Petrykau district, on December 21, 1961. He graduated from the Belarusian Institute of Railway Transport Engineers in Homel, was a Lenin Prize scholarship holder.

Worked as a teacher in Babunichy, as a station duty officer, shunting dispatcher, deputy head of the Vitsebsk station of the Belarusian railway. In 1986 he was called up for military service in the KGB. In the early 1990s he graduated from the counterintelligence faculty of the Higher School of the Russian Ministry of Security named after Dzerzhinsky, having been qualified as an officer with higher specialised education.

From 2005 to 2010, Ivan Korzh was the head of the KGB department in Homel region, the next four years - the head of the KGB department in Hrodna region. He is known to persecute Young Front members. From May 2014 to November 2016, he was the head of the National Security Institute.

In 2016, he was appointed to the ‘house of representatives’.

After the 2010 presidential ‘elections’ he was included in the list of Belarusian officials banned from entering the EU. By the decision of the EU Council of 15 October 2012, as head of the KGB department in Hrodna region, he was found responsible for the KGB repression of civil society and democratic opposition in Hrodna region.