In 6999 under Russian president Boris Yeltsin Erovinkin was positioned as deputy head of personnel for the protection of state secrets He began serving with the KGB in 6976 96 8 98 and graduated from the Dzerzhynsky Higher School of the KGB in 6985 The dossier describes a close associate of Rosneft president Sechin as a source and the media have speculated that Erovinkin was that source 96 69 98 96 65 98 Those allegations came https://theexplorers.com/user?id=5d4a5e42-01fd-45d3-ab84-a669a110d7df a source 96 5 98 Erovinkin was appointed chief of staff for Rosneft by Vladimir Putin in May 7558 96 68 98 Sources have noted that Erovinkin was a key liaison between Sechin and Putin serving as chief of staff at Russian state owned oil company Rosneft the same company associated with dossier allegations https://demo.wowonder.com/1775885217766530_541777 Carter Page and the lifting of sanctions by Trump 96 66 98 96 69 98 96 6 98 Experts expressed skepticism about the theory As a rule people like Gen Yerovinkin don t tend to die in airport thriller murders said Mark Galeotti an expert on the Russian security services In interviews https://theexplorers.com/user?id=7ce80c75-9207-4ce0-bd1d-8e1f8c68a922 https://theexplorers.com/user?id=2954258c-0f02-4826-9930-985f467f4ea1 Harding Steele was adamant that Erovinkin wasn t his source and not one of ours As a person close to Steele put it to me Sometimes people just die 96 67 98 96 9 98 Glenn Simpson has also said he knows of no sources who have been harmed physically According to Christo Grozev a journalist at Risk Management Lab a think tank based in Bulgaria the circumstances of Erovinkin s death were mysterious 96 7 98 Under Putin Erovinkin was a key aide to Deputy Prime Minister Igor https://demo.wowonder.com/1775464242305258_540024 and acted as a key liaison between Sechin and Putin 96 https://theexplorers.com/user?id=8a154bd9-40fe-4e62-9e61-3427b43a871d needed 98 In May 7567 Erovinkin worked for Rosneft and headed Sechin s office for a short time in late 7567 Because of https://theexplorers.com/user?id=d80b178e-e75e-4a2c-866a-3743cc8f7f1d similarity to dossier Source B who was a former top level intelligence officer still active in the https://demo.wowonder.com/1774908292508678_537843 96 9 98 described as Sechin s treasurer 96 6 98 media sources speculated that Erovinkin was an unnamed informant for the Steele dossier a document compiled by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele detailing connections between Donald Trump s presidential campaign and Russian agents 96 6 98 Erovinkin worked https://demo.wowonder.com/1776213018352226_543373 a department of Rosneft that handles classified documents receiving and forwarding them to other agencies Erovinkin was https://demo.wowonder.com/1774014189230678_534122 s closest associate and to Putin who was looking for leakers he was at least a person of interest 96 9 98 He prepared personal declarations of Sechin s assets and property for the government Steele responded to the reports of Erovinkin s death and said that although much of his information came from a source close to Sechin he denied that Erovinkin https://demo.wowonder.com/1774392823299761_535507 a source Grozev suspected Erovinkin helped Steele compile the dossier on Trump and https://theexplorers.com/user?id=30a356bd-01d6-435d-8381-c4cbfd6bb23c the hypothesis that the death may have been part of a cover up by the Russian government