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resource companies in the 1990s. In order to gain control of formerly state owned
assets worth well over $10 billion for very minimal investment, Blavatnik
agencies such as the FSB; such ties included bribery of Russian government
hired by British Petroleum (BP), German Khan [Blavatniks fellow board member
Interior] and Victor Kalyuzhny [former Russian Minister of Fuel and Energy].
Khan is alleged to have been paying each $30-50,000 per month. Khan keeps a
separate cell phone with a decoder that is used exclusively for communication with
order to gain control of such assets and also bribed and intimidated judges in order
who are significant shareholders and board members in all of his main investments
(including TNK and RUSAL) and who have been widely and publicly reported to
have orchestrated violence, murder, illegal arms shipments and coercion of the
government in order to protect his fortune. This is evidenced by the fact that his
vast fortune has been totally untouched by the Putin government. This is in stark
contrast to the adverse actions taken by Putin towards many other Russian
oligarchs.
reported and has been alleged in numerous US court filings. For example, Fatigue-
wearing militiamen armed with AK-47 assault rifles stormed Yugranefts [an oil
Vekselberg and others and took control of the company according to BloombergB.
offices and oil fieldC Further in the complaint, an associate of Blavatniks (German
Khan, who like Blavatnik was a board member and significant shareholder in
Blavatnik, Victor Vekselberg, German Khan and Mikhail Fridman [the four main
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the Tyumen oblast and the Khanty-Mansiysk region. A source of partiality is
These threats can involve both physical harm and criminal charges brought by
and takeover of an oilfield controlled by BP, armed guards prevented the delivery
Browne [CEO of BP] wrote in a 2010 memoir. We were a nave foreign investor
caught out by a rigged legal system.F An internal BP email related to the incident
stated we regard the entire bankruptcy process as invalidwe understand the fun
went right to the end [and we] were prevented by armed guards from entering the
intimidated by his actions, If they just stuck to bribing judges, we could play that
game too, says one of TNKs may rivalsdisgusted by [TNKs] alleged resort to
the wicked stick of intimidation, rather than the harmless carrot of bribery.I
10. German Khan, a fellow board member and significant shareholder in TNK,
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openly bringing guns to meetings, a Western diplomat stated, Our companies
11. Oleg Deripaska is the largest shareholder in RUSAL (Blavatnik is the second
largest). Deripaska has a long history of using violent tactics to assemble RUSAL,
the worlds largest aluminum company. For example, in a complaint filed in the
[committing] criminal acts including murder, extortion, mail and wire fraud and
money laundering. Further, These acts include the attempted murder and murder
12. Leonid Lebedev is a Russian oil trader who provided Blavatnik with the
shipping 30,000 AK47 Kalashnikov rifles, 400 guided missiles, 10,000 anti-tank
missiles and 32 million rounds of ammunition which were seized on a ship, the
Russian and Ukrainian mafia, former KGB agents, politicians and a shadowy
syndicate.N The payments for this large arsenal were routed through Sintez,
Lebedevs company and the very entity which provided Blavatnik with the seed
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A
Exhibit A BP & Trident Memo on TNK, page 24.
B
Exhibit B Bloomberg Article (Blavatnik & Norex), page 2.
C
Exhibit C Norex Complaint, page 2.
D
Exhibit C Norex Complaint, page 9.
E
Exhibit D Norex Complaint (Black Affidavit), pages 4 & 5.
F
Exhibit E New Yorker Article (The Billionaires Playlist), page 12.
G
Exhibit F BP Email on Chernogorneft Seizure.
H
Exhibit E New Yorker Article (The Billionaires Playlist), page 19.
I
Exhibit G Economist Article (The Rules of War), page 2.
J
Exhibit E New Yorker Article (The Billionaires Playlist), page 10.
K
Exhibit G - Economist Article (The Rules of War), page 1.
L
Exhibit H Deripaska Complaint, page 2.
M
Exhibit I WSJ Article (Deripaska Denied Visa).
N
Exhibit J The Guardian Article (UK Bankers Link to Arms Plot)