Updated January, 2008


Yelena Agranovskaya, executive partner,
ALM Feldmans (law firm), consultant for Yukos.
Released, 17 December 2004.
Accused of embezzlement, money-laundering and involvement in tax evasion schemes. Arrested on 8 December 2004. Released on 17 December 2004 due to poor physical health, on condition that she remain in Russia.

Vasily Aleksanyan (Aleksanyan), head of Yukos legal department from 1996, member of Lebedev defence team, executive vice president 30 March 2006.
In custody since 6 April 2006.
Accused of embezzlement (§160.4) and money laundering or legalisation (§174), and personal tax evasion (§198.2). Arrested at home on 6 April 2006. Since 6 November 2007 has been the subject of three Interim (“emergency”) Measures issued to the Russian authorities by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, due to the drastic deterioration in his state of health.

Pavel Anisimov, executive manager, Samaraneftegaz plc;
vice president of Yukos-EP Ltd, deputy of the Samara Region Duma.
2,5 year sentence , 19 May 2006; 1,5 year suspended sentence, 22 February 2007.
Accused of tax evasion (§199) on 7 July 2005. Sentenced by Samara Region Court on 19 May 2006 to 2,5 years in a penal colony. On 6 December 2006 Anisimov was further charged with illegal entrepreneurship (§171) and on 22 February 2007 was given a suspended sentence by the Samara Region Court of 1½ years imprisonment.

Igor Babenko, former head, Stavropol branch of Menatep-St Petersburg Bank.
Asylum in Lithuania, 16 October 2006.
Accused of embezzling 119 million roubles from the bank. Arrested in July 2005 in Vilnius at the request of the Prosecutor General's office. On 16 October 2006 Lithuania’s main administrative court gave Babenko political asylum.

Svetlana Bakhmina, deputy director
of legal department, Yukos-Moscow LLC.
7 year sentence, 19 April 2006.
Accused of embezzling 300 million roubles as the member of an organized group (§160.4). Arrested on 7 December 2004. On 19 April 2006 the Simonovsky district court in Moscow found Bakhmina guilty of embezzling more than 8 billion roubles ($300 million) from the Tomskneft-Eastern Oil Company. She was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony, reduced on appeal (24 August 2006) to 6 ½ months. This still made Bakhmina ineligible for release under a current amnesty for mothers serving sentences of 6 years or less. In October 2006 she was transferred to a penal colony in Mordovia, several hundred miles from Moscow and her youngest, 5-year-old child.

Yury Beilin (Beylin), vice-president, Yukos Oil Company.
Arrest warrant, 16 August 2005.
Accused of tax evasion and of exceeding the limits of oil extraction at Yuganskneftegaz plc and sale of said oil (§171.2). Called for questioning on 18 July 2005. On 16 August 2005 the Basmanny district court in Moscow issued a warrant for the Prosecutor General’s Office to arrest Mr Beilin.

Mikhail Brudno, shareholder of Group MENATEP.
Asylum in Lithuania, 22 September 2007.
Accused of theft of U.S. $6.797 billion and money laundering in the amount of U.S. $4.66 billion. Arrest warrant issued on 11 March 2004. On 4 March 2005 the Basmanny district court issued a second arrest warrant in connection with the new accusations of theft and money-laundering. A request to Israel on 27 January 2004 for extradition was ignored. On 22 September 2007 Brudno was given political asylum in Lithuania.

Ramil Burganov, former executive manager,
Yukos-EP Ltd, director of Eastern Oil Company.
Asylum in UK, 2005.
Accused of theft (§160.3) of core stock holdings of Eastern Oil Company valued at more than 1 billion roubles, consisting of majority stakes in six oil companies including Tomskneft plc. Criminal case initiated, and an arrest warrant issued in January 2002 though it was officially announced by Russian officials only on 2 July 2003. Granted political asylum in the United Kingdom despite extradition request from the Russian government.

Natalya Chernysheva, former head of Rosprom Ltd regional business department.
UK refused to extradite, 18 March 2005.
Accused of fraud in conjunction with privatization of Apatit and NIUIF stock; extradition request based on different charges, namely embezzlement of 76 billion roubles in conjunction with a transaction concluded between the administration of the Volgograd Region and Yuganskneftegaz. Arrest warrant issued in September 2004. On 18 March 2005 the London Magistrates Court refused the extradition request.

Vladimir Dubov, shareholder of Group MENATEP.
Israel ignored extradition request, 27 January 2004.
Accused of embezzling 76 billion roubles as part of a transaction between the administration of the Volgograd Region and Yuganskneftegaz. Arrest warrant issued in late January 2004. A request for extradition sent to Israel by the Moscow bureau of Interpol on 27 January 2004 was ignored.

Mikhail Elfimov (Yelfimov), acting president of Yukos-RM
Sought political asylum in Latvia, November 2005.
Accused of embezzling 31 billion roubles in 2001 through Fargoil LLC, a company registered in a special tax zone in Mordovia. Arrest warrant issued on 23 February 2005. Elfimov requested political asylum in Latvia. On 25 November 2005 the head of the Latvian Interior Ministry announced asylum verification process will take at least three months.

Tagirzyan Gilmanov, managing director of Yugansk-neftegaz plc, deputy of Khanty-Mansiisk Region Duma.
3 years imprisonment, 4 February 2006.
Accused first of falsely declaring the sale of refined oil as crude oil in 1999-2001; then accused of a second offence, abetting tax evasion. The Nefteyugansk court acquitted Gilmanov on 14 July 2005 but the verdict was overturned by a higher court and when the district court re-examined the reduced charges he was found guilty and sentenced on 4 February 2006 to three years in prison.

David Godfrey, legal counsel to Yukos Oil Company.
On 17 August 2006 the Prosecutor General's office initiated a criminal case against Godfrey and other non-Russian directors of Yukos — CEO Stephen Theede, Bruce Misamore (financial director) and Tim Osborne (Menatep director) — accusing them of misappropriating the company’s foreign assets.

Dmitry Gololobov, General counsel, Yukos Oil Company.
Arrest warrant, 30 November 2005; Currently in UK.
Accused of illegally taking possession of shares of Eastern Oil Company to the value of 3 billion roubles and, in November-December 1998, of shares of Tomskneft plc. Arrest warrant issued on 12 November 2004 and again on 30 November 2005 for money laundering; currently lives in UK.

Alexander Gorbachev, general director, Apatit-trade company.
Asylum in UK, March 2005.
Accused of conspiring with Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the illegal sale of Apatit plc output. Arrest warrant issued in January 2005. Granted political asylum in the United Kingdom despite extradition request from the Russian government.

Alexander Ivannikov, Head of administration,
Lesnoy special tax zone, Sverdlovsk Region.
5 year sentence , 8 February 2007.
Accused of abuse of office (§285 & 286), Ivannikov allegedly allowed payment of taxes with promissory notes of the registered daughter companies of Yukos in the city of Lesnoy. He was also accused of misuse of 51.4 million roubles of municipal funds. On 6 April 2006, the Lesnoy city court gave Ivannikov a 6-year suspended sentence. The prosecution appealed to the Sverdlovsk Region Court against this “soft” punishment and after a re-trial Ivannikov was sentenced on 8 February 2007 to 5 years in a penal colony.

Pavel Ivlev, partner, ALM Feldmans (law firm).
Arrest warrant, 21 December 2005.
A criminal case was initiated but on 15 February 2005 the Moscow City Court dismissed the accusation. In June further accusations were brought, of fraud, embezzlement and money laundering to the value of $14 billion between 2001 and 2002. A criminal case was again initiated. On 21 December 2005 the Moscow City Court issued an arrest warrant in absentia.

Alla Karaseva, general director of Forest Oil.
Arrested, 28 November 2007.
Accused of tax evasion and fraud. International warrant issued in late December 2003. Arrested Dolgoprudnoe, in the Moscow Region on 28 November 2007.

Vladislav Kartashov, director general
of Mitra LLC, Kverkus LLC and Ratmir LLC.
Arrest revoked & bail returned, 24 January 2007.
Accused of heading three firms that were used by Yukos for the purposes of tax evasion. Left for Cyprus in 2003. Arrest warrant issued in January 2005. In summer 2006 the prosecutor’s office in Cyprus arrested Kartashov at the request of its Russian colleagues but released him on bail after 24 hours. On 24 January 2007 the district court of Nicosia reversed the decision to arrest Kartashov and returned the bail money provided.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Chief Executive Officer,
Yukos Oil Company.
9 year sentence , 31 May 2005; new investigation to end on 2 May 2008.
Accused of grand theft of property by an organized group; Malicious non-compliance with a court ruling by representatives of a commercial organization; damage to assets caused by fraud committed by an organized group; conspiracy to evade corporate tax obligations by an organized group, multiple counts; evasion of personal tax and social security obligations by an individual; forgery of official documents, multiple counts. Arrested on 25 October 2003. Sentenced by Meshchansky district court in Moscow on 31 May 2005 to 9 years imprisonment and transferred to Krasnokamensk penal colony on 16 October. In September 2005 sentence was reduced, on appeal, to 8 years but in December 2006 Khodorkovsky was moved with Lebedev to Chita pre-trial detention centre in eastern Siberia, where on 2 February 2007 new charges of misappropriation (§160) and legalisation (§174) were brought.

Ivan Kolesnikov, ALM Feldmans (law firm),
trainee attorney.
Cyprus refused to extradite, October 2006.
Accused of fraud, tampering with evidence in a civil case, and forging of official documents in the acquisition by Yukos of shares in Yeniseineftegaz. Criminal case initiated. On 11 February 2005 a request was made to Cyprus for his extradition and on 4 March 2005 he was detained at the airport in Nicosia. On 16 October 2006 it became known that the district court of Larnaca in Cyprus had refused a request from the Prosecutor General's office for Kolesnikov’s extradition.

Alexei Kurtzin, acting chief operations officer,
Yukos-Moscow LLC.
14 year sentence, 1 December 2005; new case to court in April 2007.
Accused of embezzlement and illegal spending of entrusted resources totalling 342 million roubles (§160); money laundering of Yukos funds designated for forged charitable and public organizations (§174.1). Arrested on 18 November 2004. On 1 December 2005 the Lefortovo district court in Moscow sentenced Kurtzin to 14 years in a strict regime penal colony and a fine of one million roubles. He was transferred to a penal colony in Mordovia but in summer 2006 brought back to Moscow to study new charges of embezzlement and money laundering.

Platon Lebedev, Board chairman of Group MENATEP.
9 year sentence, 31 May 2005; new investigation to end on 2 May 2008.
Accused of fraud, wilfully causing property damage, malicious non-compliance with a court ruling by representatives of a commercial organization, tax evasion and money laundering. Arrested in hospital, where he was undergoing medical treatment, on 2 July 2003. On 31 May 2005 sentenced by Meshchansky district court in Moscow to 9 years imprisonment and transferred to the Kharp penal colony on the far northern Yamal peninsula on 14 October 2005. In September 2005 his sentence was reduced, on appeal, to 8 years imprisonment but in December 2006 he and Khodorkovsky were moved to the Chita pre-trial detention centre in eastern Siberia, where on 2 February 2007 new charges of misappropriation (§160) and legalisation (§174) were brought.

Nikolai Lubenets, mayor of Trekhgorny,
deputy of Chelyabinsk Region legislative assembly.
4 year suspended sentence, 16 July 2007.
Accused of abuse of office (§286.3). Sentenced by Miassky city court to four year suspended sentence.

Vladimir Malakhovsky, Director general of Ratibor LLC.
12 year sentence, 5 March 2007.
Accused, with Pereverzin and Valdez-Garcia of embezzlement (§160) and money-laundering as part of an organised group (§174.1.3). Arrested on 10 December 2004. Sentenced on 5 March 2007 by the Basmanny district court in Moscow to 12 years imprisonment.

Vladimir Malin, former chairman, Russian Federal Property Fund.
4 year suspended sentence, 27 December 2005.
Accused of abuse of office, causing substantial damage (§286); bribery (§204), and acquisition of Apatit shares below its market price. Charges announced on 14 April 2005. Released on condition of remaining in the country. On 27 December 2005 the Zamoskvoretsky district court in Moscow sentenced Malin to a four-year suspended sentence. In addition to putting him on a five year probation period, the court banned Malin from holding public office for three years.

Dmitry Maruyev,
Former deputy chief accountant, Yukos Oil Company.
UK refused to extradite, 18 March 2005.
Accused of conspiring in 1997 to use false contracts to supply oil and defraud a Regional administration in Russia of US $2.6 billion. Arrest warrant issued in September 2004. On 18 March 2005 the London Magistrates Court refused the extradition request.

Leonid Nevzlin, Shareholder of Group MENATEP.
US refused to extradite, 15 July 2005.
Accused of being an accessory to murders and attempted murders, the misappropriation of shares in Tomskneft plc and the Achinsk Oil Refinery plc, and tax evasion. Arrest warrant issued on 24 January 2004. On 5 June 2005 the Prosecutor General brought new charges against Nevzlin, accusing him of murder charges in connection with Alexei Pichugin. On 12 July 2005 the Russian embassy in the USA requested that the State Department extradite Nevzlin, who had come to Washington to address Congress. The US authorities declined, citing the lack of such an extradition agreement.

Vladimir Pereverzin, former deputy director,
Yukos Oil Company.
11 year sentence, 5 March 2007.
Accused with Malakhovsky and Valdes-Garcia of embezzlement and illegal spending of 248 billion roubles, money laundering. Arrested on 18 December 2004. Sentenced on 5 March 2007 by the Basmanny district court in Moscow to 11 years imprisonment.

Alexei Pichugin,
head of internal economic security, Yukos-Moscow LLC.
Life imprisonment, 6 August 2007.
Accused of organizing the attempted murder of Olga Kostina, the attempted murder of Victor Kolesov and the murder of Sergei and Olga Gorin. Arrested on 19 June 2003. On 30 March 2005 Moscow City Court sentenced Alexei Pichugin to 20 years in a penal colony. On 5 July deputy Prosecutor General Kolesnikov announced new charges of three additional assassination attempts and two murders. On 1 October 2005 Pichugin’s lawyer Mikhail Zhidkov was severely beaten by unidentified assailants in his home. On 17 August 2006 the Moscow City Court sentenced Pichugin to 24 years in a strict regime penal colony. On 21 February 2007 the Supreme Court reversed the sentence and on 6 August 2007 Alexei Pichugin was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Vasily Shakhnovsky, president, Yukos-Moscow LLC,
One year’s imprisonment, 5 February 2004.
Accused of tax evasion. On 5 February 2004 the Meshchansky district court in Moscow sentenced Shakhnovsky to a 1-year suspended sentence, “based on the change in situation around the case and presence of extenuating circumstances”.

Sergei Shimkevich, director general, Tomskneft plc.
In custody since January 2007.
Accused of surpassing the license quotas for oil extraction and embezzlement of illegal income in the amount of more than 7 billion roubles. Criminal investigation opened on 1 March 2005.

Ludmila Slyusareva, chief accountant, then financial director, of Yuganskneftegaz plc.
Arrest warrant issued.
Accused of aiding Yuganskneftegaz to evade taxes. Charges connected to those against former Yuganskneftegaz Managing Director Tagirzyan Gilmanov. Criminal case initiated, arrest warrant issued. On 13 May 2005 Prosecutor General announced investigation was ongoing.

Alexander Temerko,
board member, Yukos Oil Company.
UK refused to extradite, 23 December 2005
Accused of fraud, tampering with evidence in a civil case, and forging of official documents. Criminal case announced on May 13, 2005. Arrest warrant issued on international wanted list.

Boris Teremenko, president of Amalgam Divid Group (Moscow).
Case to court, 4 April 2007.
Accused of misappropriation (§160.4) and legalisation (§174.1.4). The Prosecutor General's office considered Teremenko to be Kurtzin’s accomplice in the misappropriation and legalisation of charitable funds. On 29 March 2007 Teremenko finished reading the case documentation and on 4 April 2007 the case was passed to the Tagansky district court in Moscow.

Mikhail Trushin, first vice president, Yukos-Moscow LLC.
Arrest warrant, February 2005.
Accused among 10 others of theft of 342 million roubles from Yukos in 2004. Arrest warrant issued on 13 May 2005. Found guilty in absentia on 28 November 2005 by the Lefortovo district court in Moscow.

Antonio Valdes-Garcia, director general, Fargoil LLC.
Warrant for arrest & detention, 2 February 2007.
Suspected of involvement in alleged money laundering scheme of $13 billion through fictitious oil sales. Arrested in the airport upon arrival in Russia on 9 June 2005. Prohibited from leaving the country. In June 2006 the Basmanny district court in Moscow began hearings into the case against Valdes-Garcia, Malakhovsky and Pereverzin but in January 2007 Valdes Garcia disappeared. On 2 February the court announced he would be apprehended and held in custody.

Dmitry Velichko, President,
Rosinkor financial investment group Ltd.
5 year sentence, 13 March 2006.
Accused of participating in embezzlement of 278 million roubles that were paid to Yukos’ companies from the Federal Budget as a return of “excess paid taxes”. Arrested on 17 January 2005. On 13 March 2006 the Basmanny district court sentenced him to 5 years imprisonment.

Oleg Vitka, director general, Zapadnoe-Malobalikskoe LLC
(Yukos joint company with Hungarian MOL).
3,5 year suspended sentence, 1 July 2005.
Accused of illegal entrepreneurship (§171), leading to receiving excessively large revenues. Arrested on March 10, 2005. Sentenced on 1 July 2005 by the Nefteyugansk city court to 3 ½ years suspended sentence.

Anton Zakharov, Director of human resources,
Yukos Oil Company.
Released, 18 December 2004.
Arrest warrant issued on 16 December 2004. Released after 2 days of interrogation.