![]() ![]() As a British citizen and a member of the Leaders’ Group of wealthy Tory donors, he has made no secret of his support for the Conservative Party because, as his legal representatives told Byline Times, of his “unequivocal support for the free market”. He was a regular confidante of Boris Johnson when, as Foreign Secretary, he was plotting to overthrow the then Prime Minister Theresa May. Alexander Temerko, the vice president of Yukos, fled to the UK that year to avoid the loss of his liberty and perhaps his life.įourteen years later, Temerko has risen through the ranks of British society. His Yukos oil firm had been seized by the Russian Government and broken up, and he was accused, implausibly, of ordering several murders. ![]() ![]() In 2005, Mikhail Khodorkovsky – who until 2003 had been one of the richest men in Russia – sat staring through the bars of a cage in a Russian court like a circus tiger. Boris Johnson’s friend Aleksandr Temerko is one of a number of wealthy London-based Russians who, while opposing Vladimir Putin, are linked to organisations that are potentially useful to the Kremlin dictator. ![]()
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