# Yuri Skuratov > [!note] Stub — fill out Russian Prosecutor General (1995–1999) whose investigations into Kremlin corruption were derailed in 1999 when state television aired a sex tape of "a man resembling the Prosecutor General." The [[Kompromat]] operation — its authentication publicly vouched for by then-FSB director [[Vladimir Putin]] — ended Skuratov's career and marked Putin's rise. A canonical kompromat case.