Most of Yukos’s assets were sold at low prices to oil companies owned by the Russian government. On August 1, 2006, a Russian court declared Yukos bankrupt. As Yukos’s assets were frozen by the government at the same time, the company was not able to pay these tax demands. In 2003, following a tax reassessment, the Russian government presented Yukos with a series of tax claims that amounted to $27 billion. Obama’s torture prison at Guantánamo is merely one example of Washington’s double standard.Īccording to the politically correct sanitized account in Wikipedia, “ Yukos Oil Company was a petroleum company in Russia which, until 2003, was controlled by Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky…Khodorkovsky was convicted and sent to prison…Yukos was one of the biggest and one of the most successful Russian companies in 2000-2003. When the facts are known the justice served on him is mild by comparison to US or UK standard treatment of those convicted of treason against the state. His real crime is that he was a key part of a Western intelligence operation to dismantle and destroy what remains of Russia as a functioning state.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s real crime was not stealing Russia’s assets for a pittance in the bandit era of Yeltsin. The Obama administration, in an unusual public rebuke, condemned a Moscow court for finding oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his former partner guilty of embezzling, saying it appears to be “an abusive use of the legal system for improper ends.”
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