http://thekomisarscoop.com Reports & Analysis by Investigative Journalist Lucy Komisar Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:39:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/03/the-real-aig-scandal-how-the-game-is-rigged-at-wall-streets-casino/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/03/the-real-aig-scandal-how-the-game-is-rigged-at-wall-streets-casino/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:36:24 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/03/26/the-real-aig-scandal-how-the-game-is-rigged-at-wall-streets-casino/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/03/the-real-aig-scandal-how-the-game-is-rigged-at-wall-streets-casino/feed/ 5 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/03/western-critics-khodorkovsky-stole-yukos-fair-and-square/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/03/western-critics-khodorkovsky-stole-yukos-fair-and-square/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:20:42 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/03/28/western-critics-khodorkovsky-stole-yukos-fair-and-square/ Yukos that was stolen from it in the mid-90s. It is buying the assets in auctions. Indignant protests are heard from westerners. Funny there was no indignation from western officials when Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other "oligarchs," with the help of crooked President Boris Yeltsin, were appropriating Russian national oil and mineral wealth for kopeks on the ruble. A Khodorkovsky company ran an auction at which a Khodorkovsky shell company "won" Yukos, paying $309 million for a controlling 78 percent. Months later, Yukos traded on the Russian stock exchange at a market capitalization of $6 billion. ]]> http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/03/western-critics-khodorkovsky-stole-yukos-fair-and-square/feed/ 1 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2006/12/poisoned-russian-linked-to-investigation-of-possible-bribes-by-ex-yukos-official/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2006/12/poisoned-russian-linked-to-investigation-of-possible-bribes-by-ex-yukos-official/#comments Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:59:22 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2006/12/27/poisoned-russian-linked-to-investigation-of-possible-bribes-by-ex-yukos-official/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2006/12/poisoned-russian-linked-to-investigation-of-possible-bribes-by-ex-yukos-official/feed/ 7 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2005/05/yukos-kingpin-on-trial/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2005/05/yukos-kingpin-on-trial/#comments Tue, 10 May 2005 13:46:51 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=93 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2005/05/yukos-kingpin-on-trial/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2004/07/study-russia-loses-9-billion-through-phony-import-export-prices-with-the-united-states/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2004/07/study-russia-loses-9-billion-through-phony-import-export-prices-with-the-united-states/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2004 03:14:58 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=82 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2004/07/study-russia-loses-9-billion-through-phony-import-export-prices-with-the-united-states/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2004/03/offshore-banking-the-secret-threat-to-america-2/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2004/03/offshore-banking-the-secret-threat-to-america-2/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2004 02:41:22 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=79 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2004/03/offshore-banking-the-secret-threat-to-america-2/feed/ 1 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/12/legal-problems-for-alexei-golubovich-in-switzerland/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/12/legal-problems-for-alexei-golubovich-in-switzerland/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:10:08 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=78 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/12/legal-problems-for-alexei-golubovich-in-switzerland/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/11/criminal-complaint-filed-against-khodorkovsky-lebedev-and-golubovich-in-switzerland/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/11/criminal-complaint-filed-against-khodorkovsky-lebedev-and-golubovich-in-switzerland/#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:58:13 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=76 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/11/criminal-complaint-filed-against-khodorkovsky-lebedev-and-golubovich-in-switzerland/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/11/menatep-paper-trail/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/11/menatep-paper-trail/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:54:02 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=75 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/11/menatep-paper-trail/feed/ 1 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/11/the-richest-crook-in-russia/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/11/the-richest-crook-in-russia/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:51:36 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=77 A business group headed by Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was arrested in October for allegedly defrauding the state of $1 billion, stashed money in offshore centers, including Switzerland, Luxembourg, the British Virgin Islands, the Seychelles, Panama and the Bahamas, according to Yelena Collongues-Popova, who worked for one of Khodorkovsky’s associates. Lucy Komisar, a New York investigative reporter who is writing a book about the offshore bank and corporate secrecy system, interviewed Collongues- Popova. This is her story. PARIS -- A French woman of Russian origin, with thousands of papers related to the Menatep business group and its offshore banking and dealings over the past decade, has been providing information to Russian prosecutors who are building a case against oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the richest man in Russia, who was arrested in October for tax evasion. She says she set up numerous offshore companies and bank accounts in the Caribbean and Europe to help the Menatep group cheat Russian company shareholders and tax authorities. Her registered agent in the Caribbean was Icaza Gonzalez Ruiz and Aleman in the British Virgin Islands and Bahamas, against which she now has a legal action. She says she used Bank Leu (Bahamas), a subsidiary of Bank Leu, Geneva, to deposit funds in fiduciary accounts to have the benefit of withholding tax exemptions. ]]> http://thekomisarscoop.com/2003/11/the-richest-crook-in-russia/feed/ 0