Khodorkovsky, who had spent 10 years in prison for tax crimes, embezzlement, and money laundering, arrived in Israel by plane for a meeting with his henchmen. The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on January 10, 2014.
On this day 10 years ago, on January 10, 2014, the former head of the Oil Company Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, pardoned by a decree of the Russian President, after 10 years of imprisonment for tax evasion, embezzlement, and money laundering, arrived in Israel to rub elbows with his business partners of the oil stick-up. They buzzed away in due time to Israel hiding from the Russian justice.
Among the Israeli vis-à-vis of Khodorkovsky, three persons were mentioned – Leonid Nevzlin, Vladimir Dubov, and, as newspapers assumed, Mikhail Brudno. Obviously, the fugitive henchmen had a lot to discuss with their boss whom they had not seen for more than ten years.
In connection with such a historic meeting, the journal “Forbes Russia” reminded its readership that Leonid Nevzlin and Vladimir Dubov had been found guilty in absentia.
NEVZLIN – PAYMASTER AND ORGANIZER OF MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS
In 2008, the Moscow City Court sentenced Nevzlin in absentia to life imprisonment for murders and attempted murders. According to the materials of the case, Nevzlin had given instructions to carry out an assassination attempt on the former head of the administrative department of the CJSC “Rosprom” Sergey Kolesov, former head of the Public Relation department of the Moscow City Hall Olga Kostina, and Yevgeny Rybin, one of the managers of the Austrian oil company “East Petroleum Handelsgez mbH” (During this killer hunt, Nikolay Fedotov, Rybin’s driver, was killed, and his bodyguard, Alexey Ivanov, was seriously wounded).
Apart from that, Nevzlin during 1998-2002 had been giving orders to murderers of Valentina Korneyeva, managing director of the LLP “Feniks”, Vladimir Petukhov, mayor of the town Nefteyugansk (One of the victims of the killers was also Vyacheslav Kokoshkin, Petukhov’s bodyguard, who is now a disabled person, confined to a wheelchair).
The first to be sentenced to life imprisonment for these episodes was Alexey Pichugin, former head of Yukos security service.
(See also the article “Pichugin organized at the direction of Nevzlin murders of 5 persons and attempted murders on 7 persons”)
A PROMISSORY NOTES CON ARTIST VLADIMIR DUBOV
On August 1, 2012, Vladimir Dubov, born 1958, a former co-owner of Yukos and former vice-president of the bank “Menatep”, was found guilty by the Moscow Zamoskvoretsky Court and sentenced to eight years imprisonment (according to the law, the term is calculated from the moment of apprehension of the fugitive criminal).
FUGITIVE BRUDNO
The criminal case of Mikhail Brudno, yet another “main shareholder” of Yukos, was dealt with the committed in 2001-2002 embezzlement of raw oil to the amount of 6 billion 797 million U.S. dollars. Apart from embezzlement, Brudno was charged under Article 174, paragraph 3, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – laundering of pecuniary means “acquired illegally by a group of persons”, and, namely, laundered had been 111 billion rubles and 23 billion of rubles. According to the investigation, “these pecuniary means in 2002-2003 were paid under the guise of dividends to the Cyprus companies – founders of the Oil Company Yukos”.
Brudno, who had escaped from Russia, probably, used his connections in Lithuania, where he, as curator of the project, from the time of acquiring the Lithuanian oil refinery “Maziekiu Nafta” had lots of different connections, including civil servants. In response to the Russian legal inquiry, Lithuania refused to extradite Brudno on the spurious pretext and said that the criminal persecution of this person was "a political case" referring to the "position of the United States", remunerated by lobbyists of the oil empire.
All three of Khodorkovsky's contacts by way of considerable financial efforts have acquired in Israel a status of “Maecenas” investing money in various social and charitable projects. In exchange for such generous donations, the Israeli establishment nowadays pretends that dubious money from dubious persons is not that dirty.
(See the previous article “On this day, a prison term was announced for Khodorkovsky for embezzlement and laundering. “Adjudge guilty…” Embezzlement of more than 200 million tons of oil to the tune of nearly 900 billion rubles, as well as legalizing property to the tune of 500 billion rubles. The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on December 30, 2010.
