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Leonid Nevzlin, former second-in-command of Yukos Oil
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| By Israel Insider staff and partners November 27, 2006 |
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Debka reports last Saturday that Alexander Litvinenko, the murdered Russian ex-spy and journalist, had visited Israel in the weeks before his murder to pass a dossier to former Yukos Oil second-in-command Leonid Nevzlin. Nevzlin, a Jewish Russian billionaire who fled his native country when it became apparent that the government was targeting Yukos Oil owners and executives, told reporters for the British daily The Times that he would be handing over the document to Britain's Scotland Yard which is investigating the murder that took place on British soil.
Nevzlin fled Russia and became an Israeli citizen in 2003 when the Russian government began arresting executives from Yukos Oil, including Yukos Oil chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Khodorkovsky, who at the time of his arrest was Russia's wealthiest man, was also a vocal critic of the Putin government and is now serving a nine year sentence for tax evasion in a former Soviet labor camp in Siberia.
Yukos Oil was subsequently broken up and sold to a Russian state-owned firm for roughly half its estimated value.
The document handed over to Nevzlin by Litvinenko reportedly contains "startling" information relating to the prosecution and forced sale of the company.
Litvinenko was poisoned with an extremely scarce radioactive substance, polonium-210, and died from the poisoning last week. On his deathbed Mr. Litvinenko publicly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin for orchestrating his murder and provided police with a list of other people who had been targeting him in the months leading up to his killing.
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