Mikhail Khodorkovsky become the richest man in Russia worth $15 billion by fraudulent acquisition of state assets during the Yeltsin era.
### In an auction run by his OWN bank, Khodorkovsky paid $309 million for Yukos.............an oil company worth $45 billion !!!
In 1998, Khodorkovsky was freed in a US case when charged with laundering $10 billion with his own bank and the Bank of New York. The head of the Bank of New York, Edmund Safra, was later murdered reportedly by the Russian mafia.
Khodorkovsky set up the Open Russia Foundation and invited Henry Kissinger and Lord Jacob Rothschild to its board. He developed ties with the most powerful circles in Washington DC and was named to the Advisory Board of the secretive Carlyle Group alongside George H.W. Bush and James Baker III.
Khodorkovsky then planned to be Russian president by buying enough seats in the Duma elections so he could change Russian laws regarding ownership of oil.
### At the time of his arrest Khodorkovsky was negotiating via George H.W. Bush, the sale of 40% of Yukos to Chevron or ExxonMobil in a move that would have devastated the Russian economy.
### Khodorkovsky also made a contract with Lord Rothschild that in the event of his arrest the 40% share of his Yukos stocks would pass to Lord Rothschild !!!
The crocodile tears of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the violations of Khodorkovsky’s human rights hide a far deeper agenda.