This may have been worth watching last Saturday:
How much does it cost to blow up an airplane
NTV journalists try to find out who is financing terror actsIt's a well-known fact: terrorists make good money. Stories about how only those who are ideologically motivated can take a whole school hostage - are bluff. All terror acts are custom-ordered, carefully-planned actions, for which those carrying out the missions receive money. As it turns out, good money. According to several sources, one hundred million dollars a year are spent on financing terrorism in Russia. Can you imagine such a sum? Where does this money come from?
In the beginning of the 1990s the leaders of the Chechnyan bandits worked independently. With the help of representatives of big business, they occupied themselves in bank frauds and sneaked into Russia's oil business. In such a way billions of rubels which were to be paid for Siberian oil were lost due to crime - either due to "Yukos" or a certain Khozh-Akhmed Nukhayev, the main financer of the Chechnyan bandits. In addition, this same Nukhayev controlled a large block of shares in the St. Petersburg business LogoVAZ.
In their program, Aleksey Yegorov and Aleksey Malkov will find out from where the terrorists received such huge resources. Recall Paul Khlebnikov, the recently murdered editor for the Russia version of "Forbes" magazine. Khlebnikov once wrote a book about Nukhayev called "Conversation with a Barbarian". By the way - the murderers of Khlebnikov have yet to be found, however it has become known that he was seriously considering investigating the connections Russian business circles have with criminal organizations of the Caucasus.
You may view the journalists investigations tomorrow on NTV, "Terror act paid for in advance".
Natal'ya VOLOSHINA 24 September 2004