Quotes About Yukos

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

In the early 1990s, Khodorkovsky made a fortune by attracting government deposits to his bank and speculating against the collapsing ruble. His bank, Menatep, was the largest holder of government funds, and much of the profit he made as a banker came at the government's expense.19 Khodorkovsky used his banking business to expand into other sectors, purchasing the Yukos oil company at a knock-down price in 1995 through a scandal-plagued privatization scheme.

Yukos continued to use regional tax minimization schemes more aggressively than any other oil firm.