By David Lanchner, Institutional Investor Magazine, October 2002 published: “ Khodorkovsky's business schemes tend to be as complex as Russian novels. In the plan's most alarming provision, the new issues were to be sold to 13 offshore companies stretching from the island of Niue in the South Pacific to the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, using IOUs issued by other Yukos subsidiaries and not due for four years”.

By Rodolfo Ragonesi, Times Malta, December 4, 2017 published: “In the 1990s Menatep was then hurled to notoriety when it became the centre of a huge money-laundering scandal involving several banks, with the funnelling of $15 billion to the Bank of New York by Russian mobsters”.

By Fiametta Cucurnia, La Republica, 04 september, 1999 published: “One of the largest money laundering operations in history, billions of dirty dollars have passed through Bank of New York in recent years in an operation in which, according to investigators, international intermediaries, the Russian mafia and members of the Moscow government are involved”.

By Andrew Higgins, Alan S. Cullison, Michael Allen andPaul Beckett of The Wall Street Journal, aug. 26, 1999 published: “Economists say it has drained billions in profits from Russia's core metals and oil companies into offshore accounts controlled by the management of the companies back in Russia”.

By David Randall, Saturday 28 August 1999, published: “Mr Kagalovsky was Russia's representative to the IMF from 1992 to 1995. He is now vice president of Russian oil giant Yukos”.

By Lucy Komisar, The Komisar Scoop, march 28, 2007 published: “That puts in perspective complaints that Yukos‘s nearly 10-percent share in Rosneft had been offered at “a sharply discounted starting price of $7.5 billion, roughly 12 percent below its market value.” How does that compare to Khodorkovsky buying Yukos at about six percent of its market value?”

By Lucy Komisar, The Komisar Scoop, 10 may, 2005 published: “Yukos sold oil and petroleum products to tax haven shells which sold them on the world market. The transfer pricing cheated the government of a number of forms of taxes, totaling $1.7 billion”.

By Pinhas Inbari, FOCUS Magazin, Nr. 12 (2005) published: Interpol is currently investigating the exact link between the money laundering cases in Tel Aviv and Marbella. "In both cases, we find the same heroes," a senior Israeli justice ministry official told FOCUS. "And the star is Nevzlin".