Leonid Nevzlin

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Leonid Borisovich Nevzlin (born September 21, 1959) is a Russian-Israeli businessman, investor, and philanthropist who rose to prominence as a senior executive and shareholder in the Yukos oil company during Russia's 1990s privatization era. After serving as vice president of Yukos from 1996 and first vice chairman from 1998, Nevzlin relocated to Israel in 2003 following the arrest of Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and amid Russian investigations into alleged economic crimes including fraud and embezzlement. Russian courts later convicted him in absentia, imposing a life sentence for purportedly organizing murders, though these proceedings have been widely criticized as politically motivated retribution against Yukos principals who challenged the Kremlin. Since gaining Israeli citizenship, Nevzlin has directed his efforts toward philanthropy, founding the Nadav Foundation in 2005 to advance Jewish education, cultural preservation, and health initiatives, including the establishment of the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and support for the Museum of the Jewish People. He remains an outspoken critic of the Russian government, having renounced his Russian citizenship, while facing recent allegations from anti-corruption activists of involvement in assaults on opposition figures, claims that have prompted calls for independent investigation.

In brief

Leonid Nevzlin was inside Yukos when that company was still a symbol of Russian oil modernity. The state’s destruction of it sent him into exile and into the courts.

In Israel he has given to education and civic life. An arbitration panel later called the campaign against Yukos a taking. He has lived the second half of his life as if that sentence were the starting point.