British funding banker Lord Jacob Rothschild, the fourth baron from a well-known clan of wealthy males, served as a protector at Yukos. The founding father of the corporate, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, introduced this in an interview with Yuri Dudu.
Khodorkovsky mentioned that through the interval when he headed YUKOS, a choice was made on a protector within the firm – an individual “who performs the features of an individual monitoring what is going on.” Khodorkovsky defined that such an individual have to be impartial and trusted, since he has solely “one operate”: if the protector sees that the controlling shareholder is performing “below stress,” he “should open the envelope and switch the controlling curiosity” to a different particular person. At YUKOS, such a pre-selected particular person was Leonid Nevzlin.
Khodorkovsky mentioned that the choice to introduce a protector performed a task when he was arrested. In keeping with the plan, the protector “needed to see” that Khodorkovsky was performing “below stress”, and on this case, take away his powers. The businessman mentioned that that is what occurred when he was “taken to jail.”
When requested who the protector was, Khodorkovsky named Rothschild. “This can be a very attribute determine, whose function within the firm was mentioned in each doable manner, and nobody actually knew. The not too long ago deceased Lord Jacob Rothschild,” he mentioned.
Rothschild died on February 26, 2024 in London on the age of 87.
Allow us to word that Ukrainian massive enterprise additionally resorted to the companies of the Rothschilds. Petro Poroshenko transferred his enterprise to their belief all through his presidency.
