Yukos Creator Found Dead in London Flat

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2007/01/11/002.html

Yukos Creator Found Dead in London Flat
By Catherine Belton
Staff Writer
A founding father of the one-time Yukos oil empire, Yury Golubev, has been found dead in his London apartment, former and current Yukos shareholders said Wednesday.

Police are investigating the death on Sunday of Golubev, a shareholder in Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Group Menatep, friends said, but added that they had no immediate cause to think it was suspicious.

"I don't know what happened. He was found dead in his apartment," said Konstantin Kagalovsky, a former Menatep shareholder and a close friend. "It could have been a heart attack. I don't think it was anything suspicious."

Police at Scotland Yard declined to comment. The cause of his death was unclear.

Golubev, 65, was one of Khodorkovsky's most long-standing partners and briefly ran Menatep, now known as GML, in the summer of 2003. The handover came after Menatep chairman Platon Lebedev was arrested in July on charges of fraud and tax evasion, the start of a state-run attack that was to smash the nation's once-biggest oil producer and send its shareholders into jail or exile.

Golubev, who was never targeted in the Yukos attack, helped create Yukos as a vertically integrated oil company even before it was privatized by Khodorkovsky's Menatep. He continued to play a leading role in the company after the takeover, first as head of strategic planning at Yukos Moskva and then as a board member from 2000.

[saigon68]

1. NOTHING TO SEE--- MOVE ALONG

[seemslikeadream]

2. and it definitely has nothing to do with Litvinenko

:hi:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x130666

[saigon68]

3. Nope like I said "nothing to see"

</sarcasm> (for the lurkers)


Hi SLAD :-) :-)

[tanyev]

4. Kick!

[Quantess]

5. Duh, I dunno.... He just dropped dead.

Gee..he just dropped dead for no apparent reason...

[JackRiddler]

6. This is turning into the last part of The Godfather

[C_U_L8R]

13. Up to the "do you renounce Satan" part

[WHAT]

15. that's exactly what I was thinking...

substitute the bush tv tape for the wedding scene (and then there's all this other stuff going on.

[Norquist Nemesis]

7. "Could have been a heart attack"

with a little help from Mickie vodka.

[POAS]

8. Turn out the lights and see if he glows n/t

[OKthatsIT]

9. LOL

[lovuian]

10. Not only loose your Billion dollar Oil company but

your life... can we say Russia doesn't play nicely

[AnneD]

11. I wish I could find the photo

Of Rice talking to Putin. His eyes have such a soulless look to them. Gives me chills when I see it. It sums up these incidences well.

[lovuian]

12. Well you have to understand Putin took over those companies

just like Chavez is taking over the oil companies in his country

Now the Company owners are not happy and not the sweetest little fellows either

So I guess you can say there is a behind the scenes war going on kinda how two mafia families duke it out... obviously the Yukos family is losing to the Putin Russia family

[robertpaulsen]

14. Any of these characters connected with Far West Ltd., perchance?

Might be worth investigating. ;)