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2003-11-06 02:39 | User Profile
[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3352071,00.html[/url]
Israel Grants Russian Tycoon Citizenship
Wednesday November 5, 2003 3:16 PM
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel has granted citizenship to a Russian tycoon who could be targeted in Russia's tax evasion and fraud investigation of oil giant Yukos, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
Israeli authorities said becoming an Israeli would not automatically shield Leonid Nevzlin from possible extradition to Moscow.
Nevzlin is the top aide of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who resigned earlier this week as head of Yukos, the world's fifth-largest oil company.
Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man, has been in a Russian prison since Oct. 25 on charges of tax evasion and fraud. Critics say Khodorkovsky is being targeted because of his growing financial and political clout and his funding of opposition parties.
Russian media have reported that Khodorkovsky assigned to Nevzlin ``beneficiary rights'' to 50 percent of shares in Yukos holding company, Group Menatep. That would make Nevzlin a key figure in protecting the company's multibillion-dollar assets from the authorities who might try to seize them.
Nevzlin, who is Jewish and as such entitled to citizenship in the Jewish state, was questioned by Russian police in July, but no criminal charges have been brought against him. He arrived in Israel on a tourist visa two months ago and was granted citizenship on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said.
Israeli opposition legislator Colette Avital said it appeared the process was unusually quick.
``Suddenly, overnight he became a dedicated Zionist and he got citizenship in a speedy manner and we have to ask why?'' Avital told The Associated Press.
The ministry said Nevzlin went through the proper procedures and was not given preferential treatment.
Nevzlin is No. 386 on Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people, with an estimated wealth at $1.1 billion. Forbes ranks him as the 11th richest Russian.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, meanwhile, brought up his concern about recent arrests of Jewish businessmen in Russia during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday.
``He said that as a Jew and as prime minister he is worried that there is persecution'' of Jews, said Sharon adviser Raanan Gissin.
Sharon fears the arrests could lead to greater anti-Semitism, Gissin said.
Putin assured Sharon that the cases were purely criminal, according to Gissin. Neither leader mentioned Khodorkovsky or Nevzlin by name. Khodorkovsky has said his father is Jewish.
Nevzlin was formerly head of the Russian Jewish Congress - the group once headed by Vladimir Gusinsky, another oligarch who found refuge in Israel.
According to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, another Yukos shareholder, Vladmir Dubov, was in Israel until recently and stayed in the same Tel Aviv hotel as Nevzlin.
2003-11-06 18:22 | User Profile
Israeli authorities said becoming an Israeli would not automatically shield Leonid Nevzlin from possible extradition to Moscow.
Suuuuuuuuure it won't, just like all those "loans" we give Izzy-rail never get defaulted on.
Actually, there may be a grain of truth in the statement. I'm sure his extradition status will hinge on how much of his ill-gotten loot he "shares" with the cash-strapped Israeli government, after all, wiping out Palestinians is an expensive business and those "loans" aren't near generous enough!
2003-11-06 19:06 | User Profile
Israeli law does not allow extradition of Israeli citizens.
Although, there has been at least one case in which Israel returned a murderer to the US after the jewish murderer fled to Israel (the Jew cut off the victim's arms and legs and burned him). Israel refused to return the murderer. But, after Congress decided to withhold $75 million in an aid installment, the Israeli courts ruled something to the effect that because the Jew had never been to Israel before that they could cancel his automatic citizenship thus he wouldn't be protected from extradition.
Of course, Israel had no interest in harboring a lowly punk, especially from the United States (the source of many billions of dollars). But, a rich jew from Russia will certainly get better treatment.
Israel: The Jew's get-out-of-jail-free card.
2003-11-06 22:17 | User Profile
Israel: The Jew's get-out-of-jail-free card.
To late, there was someone who made up his mind about this issue some time ago.
Die Herrschaft des Juden im Staate erscheint schon so gesichert, daß er sich jetzt nicht nur wieder als Jude bezeichnen darf, sondern auch seine völkischen und politischen letzten Gedankengänge rücksichtslos zugibt. Ein Teil seiner Rasse bekennt sich schon ganz offen als fremdes Volk, nicht ohne dabei auch wieder zu lügen. Denn indem der Zionismus der anderen Welt weiszumachen versucht, daß die völkische Selbstbesinnung des Juden in der Schaffung eines palästinensischen Staates seine Befriedigung fände, betölpeln die Juden abermals die dummen Gojim auf das gerissenste. **Sie denken gar nicht daran, in Palästina einen jüdischen Staat [Israel] aufzubauen, um ihn etwa zu bewohnen, sondern sie wünschen nur eine mit eigenen Hoheitsrechten ausgestattete, dem Zugriff anderer Staaten entzogene Organisationszentrale ihrer internationalen Weltbegaunerei; einen Zufluchtsort überführter Lumpen und eine Hochschule werdender Gauner. **
Aber es ist das Zeichen nicht nur ihrer steigenden Zuversicht, sondern auch des Gefühls ihrer Sicherheit, wenn frech und offen zu einer Zeit, da der eine Teil noch verlogen den Deutschen, Franzosen oder Engländer mimt, der andere sich als jüdische Rasse dokumentiert.
Wie sehr sie den nahenden Sieg schon vor Augen sehen, geht aus der furchtbaren Art hervor, die ihr Verkehr mit den Angehörigen der anderen Völker annimmt. (Seite 356 -Palästina als Organisationszentrale-, Adolf Hitler "MEIN KAMPF" 1924)
The power grip of the jew in the state seems to be so tight now that he not only starts calling himself a jew all over again but that he even openly admits his racial and political thoughts relentlessly. A part of his race is even openly confirming itself as a foreign nation while notwithstanding being in the situation of lying once again. Because Zionism tries to convince the rest of the world that the national self determination of the jew will be satisfied by the erection of a Palistine state the jews once again fool the dumb goyim in the most perfidious manner. They do not even think of building a jewish state (Israel) in Palastine in order to settle down there but they just wish an organizational centre for their global thievery free from any access of other states; a refuge for hoodlums and a high school for criminals.
But it is not only a sign of their increasing optimism but also a sign of their sense of security that they openly document themselves as part of the jewish race at a time when one part still mimics the German, Frenchmen or Englishmen.
How close they consider themselves to victory can be seen in their dealings with members of other nations.
(Page 356 - Palastine as an organizational center-, Adolf Hitler "MEIN KAMPF" 1924)