...Russia has accused Nevzlin of fraud and contract hits. The 46-year-old Jewish Russian-born entrepreneur was one of the key shareholders in Yukos. In summer of 2003, after one of the company shareholders had been arrested, Nevzlin moved back to Israel. In those days Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office claimed it had no evidence of Nevzlin’s alleged wrongdoings but later more suspicious facts were unearthed....
...But soon afterwards the prosecutors said they suspected Nevzlin, who held charge of Yukos’ corporate security service, of masterminding attacks on lives of certain “disagreeable” individuals. A Yukos security officer charged with carrying out a contract hit and a murder attempt, allegedly on Nevzlin’s orders, [Alexei Pichugin] was later sentenced to twenty years in prison by a Moscow court....
