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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”.

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.

By David Hoffman, The Washington Post, April 18, 1999 published: “The new shares are being sold in a closed subscription to little-known offshore companies. Critics say Khodorkovsky is trying to dilute the holdings of minority shareholders and effectively transfer control of the company to obscure offshore entities, which the critics suspect are secretly controlled by Khodorkovsky”.

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 David Hoffman, The Washington Post, June 4, 1999 published: “The new documents, made available to The Washington Post, come from Yukos's registry of shares; it is open only to shareholders with 2 percent or more of a company. The records show that in recent months, while the share-dilution scheme was pending, the subsidiaries were simply taken out of Yukos's control and sent offshore. Some of the offshore companies are the same ones that may benefit from the share-dilution scheme”.

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”.

By David Hoffman, The Washington Post, June 25, 1999 published: “Dart and other minority shareholders have accused Russian business magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky of trying to water down their shares and move them offshore. Khodorkovsky heads a troubled business empire with Yukos at its core”.

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”.