Leonid Borisovich Newslin

Leonid Borissowitsch Newslin (2005)

Leonid Borissowitsch Newslin ( Russian Леонид Борисович Невзлин ; Hebrew לאוניד נבזלין; * September 21, 1959 in Moscow ) is a Russian and Israeli entrepreneur.

Activities in Russia

Newslin graduated from Gubkin University of Petroleum and Gas in 1981 .

He was a senior employee of the Russian oil company Yukos before it was liquidated by the Russian government. The Russian government is demanding his extradition on controversial criminal charges against him and other former Yukos executives. In 2008, he was convicted in absentia and found guilty of several cases of conspiracy to murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Newslin called the court a show trial staged by Vladimir Putin.

Newslin worked at the Soviet Ministry of Geology. From 1981 to 1987 he was a software engineer in Sarubesch Geologia , a foreign trade organization of the then Soviet Ministry of Geology. He was in 1987 for scientific and technical creativity of youth in the Center Frunzensky Rajon Committee VLKSM - where he met Mikhail Khodorkovsky and where he became deputy director. From 1989 to 1991 he worked as President of Menatep Jordanland. At the same time, he attended management and marketing courses at the Russian Plekhanov University of Economics . From 1991 to 1996 he held various senior positions at the bank and the Menatep Group . In April 1996, he became Vice President of Yukos, which was then owned by Menatep . Newslin assisted Boris Yeltsin in re-election during the 1996 Russian presidential election and was awarded the Order of Friendship for his efforts . From September 1997 to October 1998, Newslin served as the first deputy general director of the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS (while keeping his positions at Yukos). In April 1998 he became the first vice-president of the Menatep Board and in 1999 - after Bank Menatep went bankrupt amid the Russian financial crisis of 1998 - he became the first vice-president of Yukos board.

From March to December 2001, Nevzlin served as President of the Russian Jewish Congress. He was a key player in Jewish history and heritage and for research projects, including the establishment of the Moscow Jewish Cultural Center and the International Center for Russian and Eastern European Jewish Studies in Moscow. In addition, Newslin contributed to numerous other Jewish education programs in partnership with World ORT, the Jewish Agency in Israel - where he served on the Board of Governors - and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Newslin represented Mordovia on the Federation Council from November 2001 to March 2003 . From June to November 2003 he was the rector of the Russian State University of Humanities. Newslin was on Forbes' 100 richest people in 2003 and 2004. His wealth was estimated at $ 2 billion.

Activities in Israel

Since moving to Israel, Newslin has expanded its philanthropic work. His first project in Israel was the creation of the Leonid Newslin Research Center for Russian and Eastern European Judaism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He founded similar centers in Moscow, Vilnius and Kiev. Newslin has also founded the Nadav Fund - United Israel Action in partnership with Keren Hajessod , which supports projects to promote Jewish knowledge. Working with the Israeli government, Newslin established a relief fund in 2004 to help preserve Beth Hatefutsoth , the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv, and was elected chairman of the international board of governors. He also supports the Newslin Program for the Study of Jewish Culture at Tel Aviv University . In addition, the Nadav Fund played a crucial role in the opening of the International School for Jewish Folklore Studies at the Beth Hatefutsoth Museum. On June 12, 2011, it was announced that Newslin had acquired a 20% stake in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz for 140 million Israeli shekels (NIS). After the acquisition of Newslins, the Schocken family retained a 60 percent stake in the company. Newslin is the author of the books "Человек с рублем" ("The man with rubles", co-author with Khodorkovsky). "? Public Relations - кому это надо "and (Who needs Public Relations)

Yukos auction and review of 2005 sales contract

After successful civil lawsuits from shareholders before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the applicants were awarded 50 billion US dollars (37.2 billion euros) in a judgment of July 28, 2014, which the Russian government has to pay from the beginning of 2015. In 2013, Yukos Capital filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to uphold a $ 42.1 billion award against Rosneft . Samaraneftegas has refused to pay since 2007.

On July 28, 2014, the Permanent Court of Arbitration made the decision with the arbitrators Yves Fortier (attorney) , Judge Stephen Myron Schwebel from the USA (appointed by Russia) and Charles Poncet (Switzerland) (appointed by the plaintiffs) in an approximately 600-page round Judgment. They awarded the majority shareholders 50 billion US dollars at the expense of Russia - which was half of their claim. The court unanimously found that an expropriation had taken place with which Russia, in violation of Article 13, expropriated the Yukos oil company in a series of politically motivated attacks based on (1) the Energy Charter Treaty. The arbitrators said Russia was driven by the auctioning of its core business, but not by motives for collecting taxes - due to the government's desire to acquire Yuko's "most valuable asset."

The main beneficiaries of just over 40 billion US $ from the arbitrator's verdict are Leonid Newslin, owner of ~ 70%, GML Director Tim Osborne , as well as 4 ex-Yukos owners Platon Lebedew , Mikhail Brudno , Vladimir Dubov and Vasily Shakhnovsky (each ~ 7, 5%). Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky signed his majority stake in Yukos on Newslin during his trial in 2005 in an effort to repel the attack on the company. Other key beneficiaries are the Veteran Petroleum Pension Fund for 30,000 former Yukos employees, which received $ 8.2 billion from Russia. The possibility of claims settlement outside of the courts in the Netherlands is limited to technical issues. If Russia refuses to pay, plaintiffs may seize Russian state assets through court-ordered seizures in the 150 countries of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards , which the Soviet Union acceded on August 24, 1960.

The judgments of the arbitral tribunal were overturned on April 20, 2016 by a state court in The Hague.

Publications

Chelovek s rublem. (de: The man with the ruble), with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Moscow: Menatep-Inform 1992, ISBN 978-5-7043-0575-0

Web links

• The NADAV Fund website
• Nevzlin's blog
• Site of Mikhail Khodorkovsky (English)
• Mikhail Khodorkovsky website (Russian)
• Der Spiegel article dossier on Khodorkovsky

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Генпрокуратура: Невзлин организовывал убийства BBC February 15, 2008
2. ^ A Top Yukos Shareholder Is Charged With Murder The New York Times June 24, 2008
3. ↑ BBC News , August 1, 2008, Yukos figure 'guilty of murders'
4. ^ Leonid Nevzlin collection of materials at Lenta
5. ^ Jerusalem Post - Breaking News , Jpost. January 3, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2013. 
6. ^ Projects . Nadav fund. Archived from the original on November 25, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 10, 2013. 
7. ↑ News - Beit Hatfutsot . BRA. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 10, 2013. 
8. ↑ Globes report on Nevzlin's investment in Ha'aretz
9. ↑ http://www.cms-vep.com/contact/pages/default.aspx
10. ↑ http://www.woflaw.com/site/people/profile/tim.osborne
11. ↑ Unexpected success for Moscow in the Yukos case.