Anna Kritsyna
Anna Kritsyna
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Partner, Head of Administrative and Criminal Law Practice
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Anna Kritsyna is an advocate and head of GRATA International's criminal law practice in St. Petersburg.
In 2019, Anna founded the criminal law practice at GRATA International St. Petersburg.
Anna represents legal entities and individuals before state, law enforcement and judicial authorities on various matters, particularly in the area of economic offences.
With extensive experience and knowledge of criminal practice in Russia, she has established herself as a high-level expert, successfully representing her clients in a number of high-profile cases in the North-West Federal District.
While working on her clients' cases, Anna not only scrupulously researches legal issues, but also dives deep into the nuances of production, cost estimates, construction specifics and other industry issues, which allows her to exhaustively work out all the subtleties of each project, as well as to calculate the risks and develop an appropriate set of measures.
Prior to obtaining the status of an advocate, since 2012 Anna served in the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation, and since 2013 she has held the following positions: prosecutor of the second zonal department for supervision over criminal procedure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Emergency Situations and Justice, senior prosecutor of the department for supervision over investigation and enquiry of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Department for supervision over criminal procedure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Justice, head of the state statistics department of the legal statistics department in the Office of the Prosecutor's Office of St. Petersburg.
As part of the prosecutor's supervision over the criminal procedure of law enforcement agencies, Anna supervised the enforcement of legality during the preliminary investigation, including during the preliminary investigation and enquiries in criminal cases involving corruption and economic offences, in particular the embezzlement of budget funds and violations of currency legislation; committed with the use of official position, as well as in the sphere of energy, defence industry, execution of state orders, housing and communal services, construction, including shared housing construction.
Education:
1970 Academy of the Prosecutor General's office of the Russian Federation, faculty of public prosecution and investigationIndustries
Construction & Infrastructure
Practice areas
Dispute Resolution
Experience
- Advising on extradition and international cooperation in criminal proceedings.
- Representing legal entities and individuals before state, law enforcement and judicial authorities on various issues, in particular, in the area of economic offences.
- Comprehensive defence of clients, including participation in investigative and procedural actions, development of procedural position, analytical work, including on technical issues of fundamental importance for the criminal procedure evaluation of the clients' activities, advising lawyers and clients on extradition issues, changing the measure of restraint.
- Defending clients in a criminal case on embezzlement and bribery on a particularly large scale during the execution of a state order under a state programme.
- Representing a client in a high-profile criminal case involving numerous abuses of power and bribe-taking by a natural monopoly.
- Defending clients in a criminal case on illegal banking activities initiated as a result of tax measures that established an underpayment of over 1 billion roubles for only one of the alleged "clients" of the illegal bank.
- Defending clients in a criminal case on embezzlement of budget funds by overstating the cost of materials used and the cost of a particular type of work.
- Representing clients in criminal proceedings on bribery and embezzlement of funds during the supply of technical means under a state contract.
