Alfons Noviks

Alfons Noviks (Russian: А́льфонс Андре́евич Но́вик; February 13, 1908 – March 12, 1996) was a Latvian Soviet state security official and politician.

From August 1933, in the position of the Communist Party in Daugavpils, was arrested in November and later sentenced to eight years to hard labor.

[2] After the occupation of Latvia in June 1940, Noviks was appointed head of the State Security Department of the Ministry of the Interior.

After the re-entry of the Red Army into Latvia, Noviks again became the head of the Latvian People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.

On December 13, 1995, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity - having signed orders for the Soviet deportations from Latvia from 1949 to 1953.