Boris Sepp

Boris Sepp (17 August 1894 in Kuressaare, Kreis Ösel, Governorate of Livonia – 24 November 1942 in Gorki Oblast, Russian SFSR) was an Estonian lawyer and politician.

In 1922 he returned to Estonia, and worked as a forensic investigator in Rakvere, then in Tartu and Pärnu.

[2] On 21 June 1940, Sepp was appointed Minister of Justice in Johannes Vares' cabinet after the occupation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union.

He was dismissed from this position for unclear reasons on 4 July, and replaced by Friedrich Niggol.

[1] On 25 November 1940, Sepp was arrested by the NKVD and accused of having stifled revolutionary activities in Estonia during the 1920s.