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Therefore they had to prove in court that all the company's co-owners were a gang of ordinary criminals. This assumption is confirmed by a man who used to handle economic security matters at Yukos, A.P.Kondaurov, now a Communist Party member of the State Duma. This is his opinion on the connection between the company's financial state and criminality:

"I'd been head of security at Menatep for about a year and a half, and at Yukos I was in charge of the information and research directorate. I was still in that job when the Gorins met their misfortune. The only way that we resolved commercial disputes was by recourse to law.

There were some instances of industrial and financial crime at our businesses. But they were all dealt with through criminal law and handled by the police. If we got wind of any criminal activity, we'd tell the Interior Ministry. We had no power to do anything else. It was up to the Interior Ministry, acting on our information, to start prosecutions and see them through to the end or otherwise.

The company's annual turnover was 15 billion. Kostina has a very high opinion of herself if she thinks that someone would hatch some kind of plan against her, let alone murder. That's simply out of the question. In a company of that size, she and her position in it were not even zero, they were somewhere in minus figures.

Gorin, after all, according to the investigation, was killed because he knew about the attempted murders of Kostina and Kolesov that Pichugin had supposedly organised. Yet Kostina and Kolesov were of no interest to the company, whichever way you look at it. People of their rank decided nothing and knew nothing. The company couldn't have any motive to do away with them, so nor could Pichugin.

Let's now consider the consequences for the business if one of its manager suddenly decided to have someone killed. Doesn't matter whom, what's important is the fact itself. In a transparently-run company that's trying to increase its value on the market, especially the international one, any such move if discovered would spell disaster. Top managers in a company the size of Yukos are playing an entirely different ball game. They're handling issues at the geopolitical and geostrategic level. And here we're expected to believe that one of them took out a contract on a secretary! He'd be insane if he did that.

Think about the consequences. Even before he's up in court all the company's competitors would be dragging it through the mud. The damage would be colossal. This is a company that operates on western markets. And in the West, if you do something like that, you're a pariah. Contracts that were years in the making would disappear in an instant, any talks would be broken off. Nobody would lend money, or if they did, they'd do it on much worse terms. And the share value would drop like stone.

Yukos was a global company. Imagine what effect such a stain on its reputation would have. It would bury the business. And all this for what? To take revenge on an office assistant and frighten a section head? In her 18 months at the company Kostina had encountered Khodorkovskiy just twice. No more than that, because of the nature of her job and duties. She's a nobody! But a corporate scandal of this nature could cost billions in lost share value. There's just no comparison.

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