About Vladimir Alganov
Born 1952. Vladimir Alganov is a Russian spy and businessperson.
Vladimir Petrovich Alganov (; born 22 October 1952 in Leningrad) is a Russian spy. He was Soviet KGB officer in Warsaw, Poland in the 1980s and Russian SVR officer in the same city in the 1990s.
In 1996, Poland's Prime Minister Józef Oleksy resigned because of his links to Alganov.
Alganov was deported from Poland in 1997.
In 2003, Alganov secretly met Jan Kulczyk in a restaurant in Vienna, Austria. The conversation was recorded by Polish intelligence officers. According to Antoni Macierewicz, a member of the investigative board: Alganov offered Kulczyk $5 million to influence Poland's then-President Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
Also present at the meeting was Aleksander Żagiel, Alganov's Vienna-based business partner.
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KGB officer
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Vladimir Alganov was born on 22 October 1952 in Saint Petersburg.
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Vladimir Alganov is a spy and businessperson.
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Vladimir Alganov is Russian.
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