Posted on 12/01/2005 10:37:28 PM PST by toaster
The former Russian tycoon, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, now in prison in the far reaches of Siberia has learned a hard lesson about where real power exists. He now knows that all the propoganda about capitalists having power is just that propoganda. Perhaps it was his trip to the Siberian prison that taught him that a tycoon's power could never match the power of a government leader with a standing army...
(Excerpt) Read more at economicsbriefing.com ...
Talk about shilling for a crook.
Once a booster of Russian capitalism, the 42-year-old former billionaire is now calling for a "left turn" toward massive social spending, endearing him to Russia's still-numerous communist voters
Capitalism? Hardly. Capitalists are the likes of the owners of Vimplecom or Baltica who built factories, made honost business practices and earned real money. This man, along with his bunch are nothing but crooks who worked through the Yeltsin government to steal anything and everything that wasn't nailed down and kill off quite a few people who stood in their way, along with 500+ parlimentarians and aids by backing Yeltsin's seige of Parliment when it refused to go along with the oligarchical fire sale.
Oh and by the way, another one of these scum, Berezovsky, gave the Communist party $6 million during the last elections, from his exile in Britian. He also gave millions to islamic radicals in Chechnya, but who's counting?
Khodorkovsky killed people? Who, exactly? And why hasn't he been charged with murder?
I'd be curious to hear the answers from our resident member of the Putin family.
By Valeria Korchagina
Staff Writer
Stepping up the pressure on Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Prosecutor General's Office said Friday that it has opened four new investigations into his oil giant Yukos -- and they all involve murder or attempted murder in 1998.
A source at the prosecutor's office said the cases are united by "property disputes between the victims' official and private entities and the Yukos oil company," Interfax reported.
Biggest European money-laundering bust ever finds Yukos money
Police arrested 41 persons allegedly involved in a money-laundering ring that "washed" more than €250 million ($325 million) in the largest such police operation ever in Europe, in Marbella on Spain's ritzy Costa del Sol. Important quantities of the money involved apparently came from the Russian oil company Yukos, who yesterday in Moscow denied any involvement. More than 300 officers of the National Police took ten months in the investigation; many organized-crime groups on the Costa del Sol used the ring's services, and "many connections have been discovered" with the legal firm Del Valle Abogados. At least nine criminal organizations used the legal office, which has been precincted by the police, as a center for laundering their illegal profits obtained both in Spain and abroad. The Marbella law firm maintained contacts with many individuals wanted in Spain or other countries on charges of such crimes as drug trafficking, homicide, illegal weapons possession, pimping, kidnapping, murder-for-hire, international fraud, tax evasion, and stock fraud. The arrests were made in Cadiz, Alicante, and Malaga provinces; among the 41 are Spaniards, Moroccans, French, Finns, Russians, and Ukrainians. According to the police, the legal firm created a complex web of front corporations that, through the international financial system and holes in corporate and tax law, formed a money-laundering and tax-evading network. They channeled these funds through fiscal paradises or states with either weak regulations or little transparency, which made it almost impossible to identify the real owners of the money. The police stress that the network used, as a front, significant "legal" investment and property management activity.
Alexey Pichugin, former head of Yukos security, was sentenced to 20 years' prison on March 30, 2005, for organizing one murder and two attempted murders.
About his politival programme: He promised the public (if he's elected President) that he'll improve social system in such manner that Russia will have additional 80 mln of population during short time. Given the current figire is 145 mln, Khodorkovsky himself, as a rich man, should have 100 children while he currently has only three. I think he'll need three more wives... like a Muslim.
There is lots of materal on him at: http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/jrl-2005-yukos.cfm
Oh, as a globalist I will tell you how he'll do that: he'll open the borders to every central and south asian who wants to come in and Russia will be a second France. The man is no patriot but a globalist elitest parasite like so many out to destroy Judeo-Christian societies for their utopian views.
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