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Article: JAILED RUSSIAN AND ROTHCHILD'S ST JAMES'S BASE.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2003
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MORE DETAILS are emerging of the business partnership between Lord Rothschild and the Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is now in a Moscow prison accused of fraud and tax evasion.
It transpires that Khodorkovsky's charity Open Russia Foundation has been operating for several months out of Rothschild's premises in St James's.
Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos Oil, whose UK chairman is Lord Owen, befriended Jacob Rothschild when the pair joined forces to support philanthropic ties between Russia and the West.
In September 2002, Jacob Ro t h s ch i ld, emine n t ly respectable banker, head of the Rothschild family and former ...