Leonid Nevzlin
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Leonid Nevzlin is a former Jewish-Russian senator and former CEO of the Russian oil company Yukos. Nevzlin gained a controlling stake in Yukos when Mikhail Khodorkovsky handed him a 60 percent share in the holding company that controlled the firm [1].
From 2001 until 2003 Nezlin was a senator in the Council of the Federation, upper house of the Russian parliament.
After several officers from his company were arrested for murder and other crimes, he fled to Israel. In November 2003, he was granted Israeli citizenship.
On 14 July 2005, the Russian Government asked the United States Government to hand over Nevzlin to face prosecution in Russia. Nevzlin has been charged with various offenses, with one of them including organization of a contract killing. "Nevzlin, who was Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky's right-hand man, has been charged with "entering into a criminal plot with Yukos' internal and economic security chief Alexander Pichugin to kill certain individuals who posed a... danger to the company, and to Nevzlin and Pichugin," Prosecutor General's Office said.
On 27 December 2006, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation released a press report that named Nevzlin as one of the possible suspects in the poisoning of the former Russian FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.
Leonid Nevzlin maintains a blog nevzlin.livejournal.com - Другие берега ("Other Shores" in Russian).
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