From Evening Standard
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A millionaire British lawyer who died in a mystery helicopter crash was being targeted by the Russian secret service.
Stephen Curtis, who controlled Russian oil giant Yukos, feared Russia's FSB security agency was trying to quiz him over the £17 billion firm as part of an investigation ordered by President Vladimir Putin.
Mr Curtis, 45, took over Yukos last November when its boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested on fraud charges and jailed.
When he died, he was reorganising the company to protect shareholders from the Russian investigation. He had set up eight new companies and was shifting operations from Gibraltar to the tax haven of Guernsey, sources say. Mr Curtis feared official questioning as he alone carried in his head the web of offshore structures he had created to protect Khodorovsky's and Yukos's vast profits, made when the oil industry was suddenly privatised after the collapse of communism.
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http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/10523779?source=Evening%20StandardYukos Oil Co significant because of the input of Carlyle Group's George Bush Senior who brokered deals for US equity participation at favorable terms....