Posted on 08/16/2005 11:19:35 AM PDT by sergey1973
The Audit Chamber has confirmed that the Federal Treasury transferred $5.3 billion to a state-owned bank on Dec. 30, 2004, the same day that state-owned oil major Rosneft bought rival Yukos' main production unit, the business daily Vedomosti reported Monday.
The report is a further indication that Rosneft may have dipped into state coffers to buy the Yuganskneftgaz, the Yukos unit auctioned off to recover a towering tax debt.
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PING--the latest info about YUKOS.
Well, nothing there would suprise me. But it will be very hard to proof how they spend these money.
As if we have no other billionaires with questionnable tax histories.
Certainly Khodorkovsky got YUKOS (or what became YUKOS) through Yeltsin and "family" patronage. However, what was done to his company was not unlike Bolshevik "Expropriation of Expropriators". Putin and Co are now reported to be the biggest oligarchs in Russia controlling companies whose estimated market worth is $225 billion dollars, including 40% of oil industry.
As if we have no other billionaires with questionnable tax histories.==
Absolutely. SO I would say just "one down many to go".
They oligarkhs are all scums. No man which deserve respect. Thieves and swindlers. And frequantly murderrers of thier competitors too. Nothing more.
But someone of them are even more dirtier and more dangerous. That is those who try to buy politics, political parties.
It is like Don Korleone who want to become president. Don't you think that it is more dangerous then ever.
Does Russia need a mafia president? She already deep in this no need to go deeper.
SO Putin eliminated just one most threat. He have to go further of cause.
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