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Journalist Lucy Komisar: ‘Khodorkovsky is the richest swindler in Russia’. The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on August 5, 2003, and 2005.

In Lausanne, the bank-bankrupt “Menatep” arrested a book devoted to the question of “dirty money”. “Apatit" was exhibited to Lebedev. Yukos gave back $1,1 billion. The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on August 22, 2001, 2003, 2005.

By Lucy Komisar, “The Komisar Scoop, Nov, 2003 published: Collongues-Popova collected the evidence from 1996 to 2000, when she ran the offshore operation for Golubovich, then financial director of Yukos, the oil company at the heart of the Khodorkovsky empire”. “The Russia Journal, Nov 5, 2003

By Lucy Komisar, The Komisar Scoop, Nov 2003 published: “They were, she said, opaque financial arrangements or the products of trade operations relating to Group Menatep, as well as various Russian companies in which Menatep held participation or by Rosprom, Khodorkovsky’s chief holding company at the time. She said money came from Russia, Cyprus (via the Bank Menatep subsidiary of the same name in Nicosia) the United States and London”.

By Lucy Komisar, The Komisar Scoop, Nov 28, 2003 published: “The former bankers have requested the federal officials in Switzerland to open an investigation into the charges and to search the records of the Swiss offices of Menatep SA, Menatep Finances SA and Valmet (in liquidation) and of Bank Leu related to investigate claims of fraud against the Russian company Avisma and money laundering by Menatep in Switzerland”.

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 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?”

In Moscow, a life-long sentence was passed on Alexey Pichugin. The father of Mikhail Khodorkovsky was summoned for questioning with regard to the murder of the mayor of Nefteyugansk. The website Prigovor.ru reminds us of what happened on August 6, 2007, and 2015.

Andrei Strebel: “I don’t like that Switzerland is the territory where your thieves hide their money”. The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on March 11, 2004.