Miguel Krassnoff

Krasnoff was one of the army officers involved in planning and administering Villa Grimaldi, the detention camp implicated in the torture of Chilean citizens under the Pinochet regime. He is referenced several times in the testimonies of Luz Arce, a prisoner and torture victim at Villa Grimaldi and later a collaborator with the regime. In 2006, Krassnoff was sentenced to 144 years imprisonment for over 20 counts of crimes against humanity. In 2016, he was also sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for the 1974 abduction of José Ramírez Rosales.

In 1979, after the dissolution of DINA, Krassnoff was assigned to Defence Intelligence. He later regretted that he was barred from becoming military attaché to the Soviet Union or securing a promotion to the rank of general because of his previous involvement in DINA.

Krassnoff was schooled at the School of the Americas, then located in Panama, before he returned to Chile. Upon returning to Chile, he served as Professor of Ethics at the Chilean Military Academy. On 11 September 1973, still serving his professorship, Krassnoff participated in the assault on the house of Chile's socialist president, Salvador Allende, which culminated in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.

Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko (born Mikhail Semyonovich Krasnov, Russian: Михаил Семёнович Краснов; born 15 February 1946) is a Chilean military official involved in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état against president Salvador Allende. He held several high-ranking positions in the Pinochet regime, including in the Chilean intelligence agency, DINA. As such, he was responsible for the interrogation, torture, and disappearance of political prisoners at the detention center, Villa Grimaldi. After Pinochet's demise, Krassnoff was convicted by Chilean courts of crimes against humanity.