Businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky (acknowledged as a international agent) acknowledged in an interview with journalist Yuri Dudy (acknowledged as a international agent) that the chief of the Communist Occasion of the Russian Federation, candidate for Russian President Gennady Zyuganov drank vodka with him in a resort room in Davos on the financial discussion board in February 1996. In accordance with the ex-head of the Yukos firm, it was Zyuganov who advised the drink. They “talked generally in regards to the plans” of the candidate, the politician referred to as Khodorkovsky a very good supervisor and promised to “hold him as common director,” however in a nationalized enterprise. Zyuganov’s press secretary Alexander Yushchenko doubted this.
“In precept, that is completely unimaginable, that is full stupidity. The Davos venue is sort of small. Perhaps they handed by within the corridors of the resort. Perhaps Khodorkovsky was sitting within the viewers when Zyuganov spoke,” Yushchenko instructed the Every day Storm. In accordance with him, “Zyuganov personally had no contacts with Khodorkovsky.”
“Zyuganov and Khodorkovsky don’t have anything in frequent by way of the event of a political program or factors of contact. Why can we speak?” — requested the consultant of the chief of the Communist Occasion of the Russian Federation.
He stated that the assembly between Khodorkovsky and Zyuganov was additionally unimaginable as a result of the latter is “a really smart politician with a really sturdy political intuition,” in addition to due to the extraordinary media consideration.
Khodorkovsky in an interview stated that following the assembly he realized that the “college trainer” Zyuganov “has nothing to do with state constructing,” remembered the transition “from the Soviet Union to Russia” in 1991 and contacted businessman Boris Berezovsky to resolve this downside. In accordance with the businessman, Zyuganov “was extra assured in his victory than earlier than and following Davos.”
“As for his impression, that is his private impression. The place is Khodorkovsky now, and the place is Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov, who has been the flagship of all politics because the Nineteen Nineties, and right this moment his opinion is taken into consideration, together with by the president?” – Yushchenko answered.
“The same old manipulation of an individual embittered by the lack of loot and attempting to whitewash himself,” he added.
Yushchenko suggested Khodorkovsky to inform in regards to the mayor of Nefteyugansk, Vladimir Petukhov, who was killed in June 1998. For organizing the homicide, the previous head of the inner financial safety division of YUKOS, Alexei Pichugin, acquired a life sentence. In accordance with investigators, Pichugin dedicated the crime on the route of the vice-president of the corporate, Leonid Nevzlin (acknowledged as a international agent), who was additionally sentenced to life imprisonment. The Investigative Committee accuses Petukhov and Khodorkovsky himself of organizing the homicide in absentia.
The businessman already talked regarding his assembly with Zyuganov at a resort in Davos in his e book “Jail and Freedom” (2013). He wrote that the chief of the Communist Occasion got here to “go to” him to “relax.” In accordance with Khodorkovsky, Zyuganov, if elected president, promised “to not throw away personnel like him” and to nominate him “common director of a big nationwide financial advanced.” In his e book, the businessman, as in his interview with Dudu, questioned Zyuganov’s financial program. To this, Yushchenko replied to the Every day Storm that “paper will endure something, particularly when it’s paid for by somebody.”