MBH. Exposure Sessions
To begin with, it is worth recalling that MBH tried with all its might to “claim” from Russia “compensation” for the former shareholders of YUKOS, the largest of which in fact is itself. In July, 2014, the Arbitration Court in The Hague decided to recognize the violation by Russia of the Energy Charter, signed in the already distant 1991 year. The plaintiffs from the ex-shareholders then demanded 114 billion dollars from Russia to compensate for their “losses”. The claims of the plaintiffs were only partially granted by the Court of Arbitration: Russia was obliged to pay 50 billion to "poor" shareholders. This is an unprecedented decision even on the amount of “compensations” that the state (the Russian Federation) must pay on the basis of a claim from a group of individuals, including the MBH, as well as Lebedev and Nevzlin. However, Russia successfully challenged the decision of the Arbitration Court of The Hague in the Dutch court of general jurisdiction - the Hague district court.
For obvious reasons, the decision of the district court was a real blow for Khodorkovsky and all those who believed that 50 billion on a silver platter Russia will soon have to be put on the altar of victory MBH. The "suffering" decided to challenge the decision of the District Court of The Hague where, as they believe, they have more chances - in the court of Washington (Federal District of Columbia). And this American court, which is known for its verdict against Bout and Yaroshenko, has already started collecting materials about how "the Kremlin gebny offended democracy advocates represented by Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky and representatives of his inner circle."
However, there was a hitch. And you need to say bluntly - an important hitch. In the American media, there was information that Khodorkovsky’s associates received the decision of the Arbitration Court in The Hague not for nothing. In the materials of the portal www.opensecrets.org a reference article was published, which stated that the ex-head of Yukos had laid out about 4 million dollars for a suitable decision for himself. More than 2 million dollars were spent on the work of PR agencies alone, who were engaged in “whitewashing” Khodorkovsky and his hectic activities.
Much more resonance in the United States was caused not so much by the fact that Khodorkovsky did not spare the funds for self-promotion, but rather by the fact that his funds went including to lobby the interests of the oligarch himself in the American parliament. According to the above-mentioned portal, persons in the US State Department also received money from the office. In this regard, the rhetoric of the same State Department about Khodorkovsky, as a “prisoner of conscience”, becomes extremely understandable - they gilded the department even at that moment when Hillary Clinton was in his head - and the department began to promote the “lack of cope” of MBH with tripled forces.
The former Yukos lawyer Dmitry Gololobov is adding fuel to the fire, which Khodorkovsky is trying to put out with all his might. He was still in 2014 year (when the decision was made by the Arbitration Court of The Hague) on the pages of the liberal edition "Slon" wrote an article entitled “Will Putin Pay $ 50 Billions to Khodorkovsky,” the first sentences of which looked like this:
Now the ex-lawyer of Khodorkovsky’s company, who was attracted by the Washington court as a witness, gives testimony in the USA, which the MBH must have, the ears fold into a tube. Gololobov declares that he was once the person in charge for analyzing the methods of Khodorkovsky and Co. for acquiring the ownership of 70% of YUKOS shares. According to Dmitry Gololobov, he is well aware of the fact that MBH and its associates have created a whole network of front companies in offshores, with the help of which these or other blocks of shares of YUKOS have been drawn up to bypass Russian legislation. In reality, all these stakes were consolidated precisely in the hands of MBH and its environment.
The former head of Yukos in Washington stated that the main fear of Khodorkovsky and all the top leaders of Yukos was that the state could take the path of “deprivatization of Yukos” due to numerous violations during the privatization campaign. To this end, it was necessary to use increasingly sophisticated schemes for consolidating the main assets of YUKOS in the hands of Khodorkovsky and Co., as well as schemes for concealing economic crimes. In particular, they even talked about this method of hiding statements as its (attention!) Flooding together with a camper in a river ...
And one of the favorite schemes for avoiding even hints of fair privatization is auctions held for shareholders. At that time (the middle of 90-x) for Russia, this was a kind of novelty: either the affiliates affiliated with the Yukos top, or even “left” people were consciously allowed to be auctioned to create the effect of fair participation in the privatization campaign. Dmitry Gololobov said at the trial that with the help of a whole network of offshore structures, Khodorkovsky was able to avoid proper amounts of tax payments to the Russian budget.
From an interview with ex-lawyer Yukos correspondent TC "Russia1":
Considering all these testimonies of the former Yukos lawyer and the “quivering love” of the American court of law to Russia, the decision of the Federal District of Columbia will, by definition, be of great interest. After all, if the court takes the side of Khodorkovsky, then this is in fact the acceptance of the side of the criminal world and the promotion of fraud at the international level. But will it surprise anyone if the United States has signed up for state support for extremism and crime long ago, if it is in the interests of “fat cats” on Wall Street? .. Wondering if there is, then the decision is not in favor of the MBH.
- Alexei Volodin
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