The loving papa Mikhail Khodorkovsky dragged in these dirty financial laundry operations his son Pavel and his daughter Anastasiya. Pavel Khodorkovsky is director of ‘Khodorkovsky Foundation’** and Anastasiya Khodorkovskaya is director of ‘New Generation Europe Foundation’
The old swindler Mikhail Khodorkovsky is incorrigible. For lucrative purposes, he cheated the Russian state, for personal gains, he has been continuing to cheat British and Lithuanian tax services.
FIRST BRITISH-LITHUANIAN LAUNDRY BELONGING TO KHODORKOVSKY*
As early as in 2024 we found out that the British ‘Khodorkovsky Foundation’** has been financing the Lithuanian ‘Eastern Europe Research Foundation Vsl’. According to the reports for 2022 and 2023, the foundation of the fugitive Russian oligarch transmitted to Lithuania 2,339,000 and 2,855,000 dollars. I.e. in the course of two years Mikhail Khodorkovsky funneled more than 5 million dollars to a Lithuanian shell company with two employees created on September 2, 2021, that is, literally, a quarter before the begin of the financial fountain from Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Page 16 of the financial report of ‘Khodorkovsky Foundation’** for 2023 published on March 27, 2024. The number of the foundation in the British Registry is 04988238. By the way, among the directors of ‘Khodorkovsky Foundation’**, among others, are itemized Pavel Khodorkovsky, the son of Mikhail Khodorkovsky as well as Khodorkovsky’s lawyer Anton Drel
Yet more interesting happened to be the comparison of the reports of ‘Khodorkovsky Foundation’** and ‘Eastern Europe Research Foundation VSL’. In the reports of the British foundation was stated that to Lithuanian ‘East-European researcher’ had been transmitted, accordingly, 2,339,000 and 2,855,000 dollars, but in the reports of the Lithuanian structure are mentioned the following financial receipts of these years – 971,447 euros for the year 2022 and 1,052,432 euros for the year 2023.
It means that, taking into account the difference in exchange, more than 3 million dollars’ were lost somewhere’ during these years!
We wrote in detail about that in summer of 2024 in the investigation entitled ‘Financial sieve of the swindler Mikhail Khodorkovsky’
But later on – the rain dribbled for a while and then stopped. It’s a usual thing for laundering schemes. The website Prigovor.ru has found out that, according to the results of the year 2024, the financial flow between the British ‘Khodorkovsky Foundation’** and the Lithuanian ‘Eastern European Research Foundation VSL’ , practically, dried up, it went down almost by an order, from 2,885,000 dollars in 2023 to 378,000 in 2024.
OPENING OF THE SECOND FINANCIAL TAP IN BRITAIN
It’s necessary to point out that, when we published our investigation in 2024 (this was on June 17), we didn’t see yet the report relating to 2023 of another British structure of Mikhail Khodorkovsky* - ‘New Generation Foundation’** (earlier known as ‘Open Russian Foundation’** and ‘Future Russian Foundation’**, among directors of which there is Anastasiya, the daughter of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Irina, the daughter of his henchman and organizer of contract killings Leonid Nevzlin*.
This foundation published its report for 2023 only on September 26, 2024, in it there happened again to be present grands to the benefit of the Lithuanian laundry ‘Eastern Europe Research Foundation Vsl’ – 1,186,939 pounds in 2023 and 111,018 pounds in 2022.
In all, in 2023, 2,855,000 dollars were transferred from ‘Khodorkovsky Foundation”** and 1,186,939 from ‘New Generation Foundation’. Taking into account the exchange difference, the gains of the Lithuanian ‘Eastern European Foundation’ amounted to more than 4 million euros.
Moreover, in its report for 2023 for Lithuanian authorities ‘the researchers’ mentioned only 1,052,432 euros.
We would like to explain, to be on the safe side, that in the financial reports of the Lithuanian companies there is a foot-note saying that ‘From 2022, the financial data of public bodies, associations and charities and support funds show the total income, which is the sum of sales income, financing income and all other income’.
This completely unambiguous wording shows that, according to the law, all sums received by the Lithuanian foundation, must be taken into account and they could not be legally proceeded in accordance with any other paragraph differing from the one pertaining to income.
Summing up the provisional results, it is possible to point out that the two British foundations under control of Mikhail Khodorkovsky* and headed by his children, in 2022, 2023 and 2024 transferred to the Lithuanian shell company ‘Eastern European Research Foundation Vsl’ the following amounts of money:
‘Khodorkovsky Foundation’ – 5,572,000 dollars
‘New Generation Europe Foundation’ – 2,398,690 pounds.
But the Lithuanian company reported only about 4,597 euros, i.e. the difference not mentioned in the reports on income of the Lithuanian company comprises nearly 3 million was and its rests the same (as we wrote about the investigation in 2024). Three million euros were hidden in the murky financial flow. The signature style of the swindler Mikhail Khodorkovsky,
YET ANOTHER FINANCIAL LAUNDRY
As the head of the dummy company ‘Eastern Europe Research Foundation’ is mentioned the Lithuanian citizen Renata Scerbakoviene.
Having checked her in Lithuanian databases, we found out that Renata happens to be director in yet another Lithuanian company with the name that, actually, mirroring the former, in particular, ‘New Research Center Vsl’ (created on May 21, 2024)
Well, hallo! The faces are well known. Having checked the activity of this shell firm (it has only two employees), we found financing from the British ‘Khodorkovsky Foundation’. According to the report for 2024, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s foundation funneled to the Lithuanian firm ‘New Research Center Vsl’ 2,144,000 dollars in form of a grant.
We were not surprised at all when we found out that the Lithuanian structure, having receives this money, accounted only for 726,257 euros on income for 2024, having traditionally ‘lost’ another million.
Hence, the British foundations controlled by Mikhail Khodorkovsky*, during the period from 2022 to 2024, transferred to the Lithuanian dummy structures that have only two employees each about 10 million dollars, and, moreover, the Lithuanian companies in their financial reports humbly didn’t mentioned nearly 4 million of the received income. They lost it…
One can say that Mikhail Khodorkovsky upholds his reputation: where there is Khodorkovsky, there are always murky financial schemes.
AN EMPLOYEE OF LITHUANIAN ‘LAUNDRIES’
Apart from the director Renata Scerbakoviene, we could identify also the second employee who is laundering millions for Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He is not mentioned in official databases, but we found this multi-tasking operator, employee of the two firm-laundries, with the help of his own postings on the page of the social media LinkedIn.**
A certain Rostislav Pavlischev proudly said that he is an employee of the ‘Eastern Europe Research Foundation Vsl’ starting from August 2023. His person is known in Russia – in spite of his young age (he was born 2001). Leaving in the Russian town Rostov-on-Don, Rostislav (aka Rostik) managed to work as coordinator of the project ‘OVD-Info’ acknowledged as foreign agent, and in 2022, he moved to Lithuania and started to work , as it turned out now, in the structures financed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
In 2024, Pavlischev published some postings with a logo of the organization ‘Open Russia’ acknowledged in the Russian Federation as foreign agent, and after that a protocol was drawn up relating to his participation in activities of this undesirable organization. Another protocol with regard to Rostislav Pavlischev was drawn in 2025 due to the similar infringement of law. Moreover, Pavlischev is a member and speaker of the terrorist organization ‘Forum Free Russia’** and together with the participant of the ‘Antiwar Committee’ Anastasiya Shevchenko he is engaged in the propaganda project ‘Through the Wall’ (Сквозь Стену).
MONEY FOR NAZIS
While studying the activities of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s laundries in Lithuania, we found out that the company ‘Eastern Europe Research Foundation Vsl’ had been used by the terrorist organization ‘Russian Antiwar Committee’** for collecting personal data. In particular, on the website of the committee, there was a page (it is removed now, but we have kept the screenshots) on which those willing to provide help for the ‘Russian Antiwar Committee’ were asked to fulfill a form and give permission to use personal data by the ‘Eastern Europe Research Foundation Vsl).
Separately, we would like to stress out that these data were collected of those who wanted to provide help to the following projects:
- ‘Kovcheg’ (acknowledged as foreign agent in 2023); about this project and its direct ties with structures of the State Department we wrote in the investigation entitled ‘Necklace for State Department’s Fury, Reforum and Free Russian Foundation’ as early as in 2022.
- The project ‘Sunrise’, uniting Ukrainian Nazis and deputies of the Euro-Parliament. About these persons the website Prigovor.ru reported in 2024 in the investigation ‘The Nazi ‘Sunrise’ of Khodorkovsky* and euro-deputy Zalimas’
On the whole, those who like to finance rotten anti-Russian projects have evidently founded themselves in a tight spot.
Still, in the meantime, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Lithuanian laundries have been working non-stop. On October 29, 2025, was published, belatedly, the report of the ‘New Generation Europe Foundation’ for 2024. The pumping of money to this Lithuanian shell company is continuing. This Lithuanian laundry received in 2024 in form of a grant from Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s structure ‘New Generation Europe Foundation’ 1,100,733 pounds. As it will report, as it’s usual for Khodorkovsky, for about half of this sum, and more than half a million, ‘will swim’ in the murky financial flow of encashment.
Author: Alexander Zhelnin
See the Russian version at: «Найдены две литовские финансовые прачечные Михаила Ходорковского*»
* Khodorkovsky Mikhail Borisovich, born 26.06.1963, Identification Number of a Taxpayer (INN) 770200035117, Individual Insurance Account Number (SNILS) 168-196-008 95 – on 20.05.2022 was acknowledged by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation as physical person fulfilling function of a foreign agent. Included in the Registry of foreign agents with No 389. In 2015, Russia included Khodorkovsky in an international wanted list in connection with the case of his involvement in the murder of the mayor of the town Nefteyugansk Vladimir Petukhov and attempted murder of the entrepreneur Yevgeny Rybin. Apart from that, a criminal case is opened against Mikhail Khodorkovsky in accordance with Article 205.2 Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Coder of the Russian Federation (public callings for carrying out terrorist activities). He was included, on November 19, 2025, by the agency Rosfinmonitoring in the Russian list of terrorists and extremists;
**’The Khodorkovsky Foundation’ – organization whose activity was acknowledged as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation by the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the RF;
** ‘Russian Antiwar Committee’ – organization whose activities are acknowledged as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation by the Ruling of the Office of the Prosecutor General of 11.01.2024. The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) opened a criminal case in accordance with Article 278 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Forcible Seizure of Power and Forcible Retention of Power) as well as in accordance with Article 205.4 of the CC of the RF, Paragraphs 1 and 2 (Organization of a terrorist network and participation in it) against the former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and members of Russia Antiwar Committee (Mikhail Kasyanov, Marat Gelman, Leonid Gozmen, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Sergey Alexashenko, Dminry Gudkov, Sergey Guriyev, Boris Zimin, Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Yevgeny Kiselyov, Mikhail Kokorich, Yevgeny Kunin, Yelena Lukyanova, Yury Pivovarov, Konstantin Chumakov, Anastasiya Shevchenko, Viktor Shenderovich, Garry Kasparov, Kirill Martynov, Maxim Reznik, Artur Smolyaninov, Yekaterina Shulman (all of them are acknowledged as foreign agents in the Russian Federation) as well as against other unidentified persons, in was reported in the Center of Public Relations (TsOS) of the FSB. As to Marat Gelman, Leonid Gozman, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Garry Kasparov, they are included by the agency Rosfinmonitoring in the list of terrorists and extremists;
* Nevzlin Leonid Borisovich, born 21.09.1959, Individual Insurance Account Number (SNILS) 094-463-07079 – on 23.06.2023 included into the Registry of foreign agents with No 622. On August 1, 2008, as ordering customer of five murders and six attempted murders was sentenced in absentia to life-long prison imprisonment. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) based on the results of studying Nevzlin’s complaint in 2022, pointed out that it had found no ‘Court’s bias in Russia’;
** New Generation Europe Foundation (or ‘Future of Russian Foundation’) – organizations whose activity is acknowledged as undesirable on the territory of Russian by the decision of the Office of the Prosecutor General of 26.04.2017;
** ‘Forum Free Russia’, organization whose activity is acknowledged as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation on February 1, 2023; included in the list of terrorist organizations on August 27, 2025;
*Anastasiya Shevchenko, born 23.10.1979, included in the list of terrorists and extremists in May 6, 2025.
