Vyacheslav Gayzer

Vyacheslav Mikhalovich Gaizer (Russian: Вячеслав Михайлович Гайзер, Komi: Гайзер Миш Вечӧ, Gajźer Miš Većö), born in 1966, is a Russian politician who served as Head of the Komi Republic from January 2010 to September 2015.

Vyacheslav Gaizer
Вячеслав Гайзер Гайзер Вечӧ
Gaizer in 2010
3rd Head of the Komi Republic
In office January 15, 2010 – September 30, 2015
Preceded by	Vladimir Torlopov
Succeeded by	Sergey Gaplikov
Personal details
Born	(1966-12-28) December 28, 1966 (age 58) Inta, Komi ASSR, RSFSR, USSR
Nationality	German Russian
Occupation	Engineer

Gaizer (right) with the president of Russia Dmitri Medvedev, November 23, 2010

On 19 September 2015, an investigation by Russia's Investigative Committee has led to his arrest. Gayzer and 18 of his associates, some of them also members of the regional administration, have been charged with organizing and running a criminal gang involved in the theft of state property on a mass scale.^{[citation needed]} The charges against him were dropped in March 2017.^[1]