www.pedevco.com is Run By Organized Crime Member Involved in $540 Million Fraud-Dr. Simon Kukes
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Dr. Simon Kukes is a global investor and executive with over 40 years’ experience in the oil industry. He served as the principal of his personal investment company, SK Energy LLC, from April 2013 until its dissolution in December 2022. From January 2005 to April 2013, Dr. Kukes was an investor and CEO of Samara-Nafta, a joint venture with the U.S.-based international oil company Hess Corporation, and from 2003 to 2004 he served as CEO and Chairman of Yukos Oil Company. From 1998 until it combined with British Petroleum in 2003 to create TNK-BP, Dr. Kukes served as Chief Executive of Tyumen Oil Company (TNK). From 1979 to 1986 he served as Technical Director and Vice President of Business Development for Phillips Petroleum and Amoco. Dr. Kukes (who is a dual citizen of the United States and Israel) currently serves on the board of directors and is an investor in numerous international companies, including Leverate Technological Trading Ltd., an Israel-based technology company and trading platform provider (since October 2014 and as Chairman for two years), Fletschhorn, a Swiss-based hotel and restaurant company (as Chairman since June 2014), and GLAMZ Ltd., a privately-held Israel-based booking platform for the beauty industry (as Chairman since June 2018). In addition, from 1999 to 2007 Dr. Kukes served on the board of directors of global pharmaceutical company Amarin Corporation (Nasdaq: AMRN), and from 2000 to 2003 on the board of directors of Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Parker Wellbore (formerly NYSE-listed Parker Drilling Company), a global provider of contract drilling and drilling-related services.
His Real History Revealed:
Must read page 719 about Mr. Kukes’ brutal illegal takeover and theft of assets of a major oil company in Russia.
THE FRAUDULENT TAKEOVER OF YUGRANEFT BY BRUTE FORCE
212. In June 2001, Kondrashina met Khan again.
213. Khan bluntly asked Kondrashina to betray the shareholders of Yugraneft.
214. Khan directly asked her how much money she needed to betray Yugraneft.
215. Kondrashina refused the bribe opportunity.
216. Khan then warned her to “stay in the shadows” during the TNK’s fight for Yugraneft.
THE ILLEGAL TAKEOVER OF YUGRANEFT: The Ex Parte Court Action
217. Just a few days prior to the scheduled Yugraneft shareholders meeting, on June 25,
2001, TNK, through its subsidiary TNK-NV, filed a complaint in the Russian Courts and
petitioned to seize a major portion of the shares of Yugraneft held by Norex.
218. TNK-NV falsely represented that it had obtained legal ownership of shares in
Yugraneft from the auction of Chernogorneft’s assets – even though the shareholders agree
ment between Chernogorneft and Norex provided Norex with the right of first refusal to
purchase any shares of Yugraneft offered for sale by Chernogorneft.
210. TNK-NV also falsely represented that Norex had been served with the complaint which was
required to be filed prior to or with the petition seeking to arrest its shares.
220. On June, 26, 2001, the Russian Court enjoined Norex from voting a major portion of its
Yugraneft shares and prohibited Yugraneft from counting a major portion of Norex’s shares at any
shareholders meeting, even though Norex was never served or notified of the hearing and TNK-NV
was not listed as a shareholder of Yugraneft.
221. Upon information and belief, the proceedings were designed to control illegally the
shareholders meeting of Yugraneft of June 28, 2001.
raneft of June 28, 2001.
THE SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING
222. On June 28, 2001, a Yugraneft shareholders’ meeting was held at its offices in Moscow.
223. A representative of Norex attended the meeting.
224. No representatives of Chernogorneft, the registered owner of the remaining shares of
Yugraneft, attended the meeting, although it had been duly notified.
225. Norex voted its shares which had not been arrested in favour of re-electing Kondrashina as the
general director of Yugraneft.
226. No votes were cast against her re-election.
THE FRAUDULENT TAKEOVER OF YUGRANEFT BY BRUTE FORCE
227. On June 29, 2001, TNK took over the offices of Yugraneft in Nizhnevartovsk.
228. Alexander Berman, an officer of a TNK affiliate, accompanied by six TNK attorneys
and at least 16 thugs wearing military-style fatigues and armed with machine guns,
invaded Yugraneft’s office in Nizhnevartovsk.
229. Their legal authority was a purported shareholders meeting of Yugraneft on June 28 at which
Berman was allegedly elected as General Director of Yugraneft, allegedly attended by Norex
Petroleum.
230. Such a meeting never took place.
231. On the same day, TNK sent security guards to inspect Yugraneft’s field operations
and, a few days later, on July 6, 2001, TNK security guards armed with handguns and
machine guns took over the oil field and field office.
232. The TNK thugs cut off phone and Internet service in order to prevent the Yugraneft
employees from communicating with the outside world.
233. On July 17 2001, Simon Kukes the (American-Soviet Academy of Sciences intelligence operative-turned US oil executive) President of TNK, came to Yugraneft’s field operations and
informed the employees that Yugraneft had been taken over by TNK.
234. He informed them that they were required either to sign employee agreements with TNK, or leave.
235. Amazingly, after the seizure of Yugraneft, Khan admitted in a media interview that TNK decided to take over Yugraneft because it was unwilling to accept the 30% offer for the return of oil
owed to Yugraneft.
236. In July 2001, a Russian Court issued an order enjoining Berman from acting as the General
Director of Yugraneft.
237. On or about August 1, 2001, Kondrashina, Alexander Radov, an attorney for Yugraneft (pretakeover), together with attorney Alexey Timoshkin, came to the offices of Yugraneft with a
Marshal in order to enforce the order.
238. When Radov arrived at the Yugraneft office, one of the leaders of TNK’s security stated: “We
know who you are and where you live. Why do you need problems?”
239. Shortly thereafter, Nam, along with TNK armed thugs, came to Yugraneff s offices.
240. Nam called the local Chief Marshal, who then came to Yugraneft’s office, and, instead of
enforcing the order, based on the false minutes of the non-existent shareholders’ meeting, instructed
Kondrashina and the others to leave.
241. During this encounter, Nam picked up the telephone and instructed someone to give orders to
J. Paznikov, the chief judge of the Nizhnevartovsk Regional Court to dismiss the
Order [verified manipulation of the ‘socialist legality judicial’ system].
242. Such an order was entered by J. Paznikov the next day.
243. During this encounter Nam told Kondrashina that she should stop fighting TNK, that TNK
controlled the local government and that if she came over to their side that she would be offered the
position of Deputy Mayor of Nizhnevartovsk.
THE STRIPPING OF YUGRANEFT ASSETS
253. Following the Illegal Takeover, TNK stripped Yugraneft of its assets including rouble
denominated bank deposits, dollar denominated bank deposits, rouble denominated savings
certificates (known as “veksels” in Russia), and dollar denominated savings certificates.
254. The stripped assets included the transfer of $40 million (including $24 million in dollar
denominated accounts) to accounts at Alfa Bank for no apparent consideration.
255. The net result was to strip the cash from Yugraneft and transfer it to Alfa Bank for use by the
Defendants.
Comment: Further reading of this document exposes Bribery, Tax Evasion, Tax Fraud, Fabricated Invoices, etc. This is a Jewish MAFIA.
Laughably Mr. Crook does not even want his picture next to his bio.
Jody Crook – Chief Commercial Officer
Mr. Crook has over twenty-five years of experience in the energy industry. Mr. Crook has served as a Senior Advisor for Land and Business Development activities for the Company since April 2020. Prior to joining the Company, in 2015 Mr. Crook co-founded Tenet Advisory Group LLC, a Houston-based consulting firm that provides engineering, land, regulatory, and business development services to the oil and gas sector, and from 2017 to 2018 Mr. Crook co-founded and served as principal of Bronze Four Resources, LLC, an Austin-based contract operating company focused on contract drilling, completion, and production operations in the Anadarko basins. From 2004 to 2014 Mr. Crook held various leadership roles at Jones Energy, Ltd., a public oil and gas company based in Austin, Texas, including as Land Manager, Senior Vice President of Land, Senior Vice President for the Arkoma Region, and Senior Vice President of Acquisitions & Exploration. Mr. Crook holds a BBA in Finance & PLM from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
