Witness Statements

Mr. Gololobov served as Yukos Deputy General Counsel and was a member of the Oligarchs’ inner circle from 1995 to 2004. He is the first key Yukos insider to come forward to speak in specific detail about the billion-dollar bribery scheme run by the Yukos oligarchs.

Gitas Anilionis began working for Mr. Lebedev as an assistant on 1990 and moved through the ranks within a joint venture called SP Russian Trust and Trade (RTT). He describes how RTT was instructed to execute a series of transactions transferring ownership or Yukos to offshore companies.

Arkady Zakharov was a specialist at International Finance Agglomeration Menatep, which was responsible for servicing the holding companies of Bank Menatep. His statement describes how the bank's owners directed him to participate in the "loans-for-shares" auction by which the oligarchs bid for Yukos.