Arrested Russian Businessman Is Carlyle Group Adviser (!!!)

[Gloria]

I figured this guy had to have some Bush connections....his company has been in talks with Exxon and other US interests.......

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20638-2003Nov10.html

Arrested Russian Businessman Is Carlyle Group Adviser

By Greg Schneider
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 10, 2003; Page E04

The arrest of two of Russia's top businessmen in recent months was more than a distant headline for Washington's well-connected private equity firm, Carlyle Group.

Carlyle, known for the glittering roster of former statesmen among its partners and advisers, has ties to both Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, the jailed Russian tycoons.

Khodorkovsky, 40, Russia's richest man and former chief executive of Yukos Oil Co., serves as an adviser to Carlyle's Energy Group. He is among 15 luminaries who help the firm sort through investment opportunities in energy industries, along with former secretary of state James A. Baker III, former British prime minister John Major and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin.

Khodorkovsky was arrested last month by Russian authorities for alleged fraud and tax evasion. Because the billionaire is seen as a possible political rival to President Vladimir Putin, his arrest has unsettled the country's business community and worried foreign investors.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Could this be a preventive strike

on carlyle?

[Benhurst]

2. Off with his head! n/t

[AP]

3. (Blair's) UK police force arrested two guys in mid October who were...

...plotting to assassinate Putin.

They were Russians and, I believe, the plan was to kill him during a European state visit.

Connect the dots.

I wonder if Putin would have lived to arrest this oil exec if not for the arrests of the assassins. I wonder of the arrest of the plotters triggered the arrest of the exec.

I wonder who was financing the assassination attemp.

[Don_G]

4. Poppy Was In Russia Recently

Could it be that Poppy was under investegation/supervision and Putin might have heard something that amounted to treason?

[rucky]

5. Europe vs. Bush

Don't expect our candidate to dismantle the BFEE.

France. Germany. Russia. Soros.

Trouble is...what's their interest in it? And the Democrats aren't really invited to tap into these power resources.

Is this just two sets of wannabe empire builders? Is that why the Dems are mum? So who's working for us - beyond the whole "the enemy of my enemy..." concept?