The YUKOS Affair
Publication date
Wednesday, 03.12.2003
Authors
Leon Aron
Series
Russian Outlook
Annotation
In the early morning of October 25, 2003, masked agents of the Russian security agency, the FSB, stormed the plane of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, CEO and principal owner of Russia’s largest private oil company, YUKOS; arrested him; and conveyed him to a Moscow prison. He was charged with taxe vasion, fraud, forgery, and embezzlement.
In the early morning of October 25, 2003, masked agents of the Russian security agency, the FSB, stormed the plane of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, CEO and principal owner of Russia’s largest private oil company, YUKOS; arrested him; and conveyed him to a Moscow prison. He was charged with taxe vasion, fraud, forgery, and embezzlement.
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Dr. Leon Aron,
A resident scholar at AEI
www.aei.org
Dr. Leon Aron,
A resident scholar at AEI
www.aei.org
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