He criticized corruption among the security services, which were at the time led by Nikolai Patrushev, who is now secretary of Russia's Security Council.The previous year, the agency Cherkesov had led investigated a case of massive furniture smuggling that implicated high-ranking FSB officers and was said to be connected to money laundering in the United States.Cherkesov was eventually removed from his post in 2008 and became the head of the Federal Agency for Military Supplies.While critical of Interior Ministry reforms in 2011-12, he mostly backed Putin's government and its decisions, per Radio Free Europe.In September, Ravil Maganov, chairman of Russian oil giant Lukoil that criticized the invasion, was found dead after he plunged from a sixth-floor window of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow."