Sergei Kravchenko

Sergei Kravchenko is a Belarusian mathematician. He was co-winner of the Litvinchuk Medallion of Honour along with his older brother Maxim for his work on the twin prime conjecture.

Spoiler for THE TRUTH ABOUT ARCHIE AND PYE

Sergei Kravchenko worked as a security consultant for Isaac Vavasor and attached the tracking device to George Burgess's briefcase containing the Vavasor Papers that enabled him to track Tom Winscombe down to the Dot Chan offices. However, once Ali MacLehose had located and removed the device, Tom managed to hide it in a lorry load of bananas, thus keeping Sergei off their backs.

When Tom subsequently had to arrange an exchange of the briefcase to release Dorothy Chan from the Gretzky gang, Arkady Morozov arranged for a friend of his to attach a tracking device to it. The friend turned out to be Sergei, who instead inserted high explosive into the case in order to gain revenge for the murder of his brother Maxim.

Following all this, the whereabouts of the Vavasor papers are unknown.

Spoiler for BAD DAY IN MINSK

After the episode with the Gretzky gang, Sergei was forced to lie low for a while and was unable to return the papers to Isaac. However, his flat was broken into and the papers were stolen by members of the Petrov mafia family. He decided to offer himself to the Petrovs as a consultant in order to get the papers back. Unfortunately, he was rumbled by the Petrovs and killed. The papers now ended up in the hands of Rory Milford instead.