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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, 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

The European Union Bank looked like an online robber in an expensive suit. “Mr. Khodorkovsky said that he left the post of the European Union Bank’s director in 1994”. The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on August 27, 1997.

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 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 Timothy L. O'Brien, The New York Times, Sept. 5, 1999 published: “One way that Yukos's assets might be disappearing is through the use of offshore shell companies”. “Financial documents show that Yukos has established offshore entities in Cyprus, Switzerland, the Caribbean and elsewhere”.

The bank “Menatep", according to an American official, had "a horrible reputation" because of its participation in Russian organized crime. The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on October 7, 1996.

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.

The history of blossom and funeral of the firm “Jamblick Limited” from The Isle of Man. Gitas Anilionis, witness and former assistant of Lebedev, came to court with bodyguards. The website Prigovor.ru reminds its readers of what happened on October 29, 2004.