Julian Crowley
Nikolay Tokarev was alleged to be a KGB officer in East Germany during the Cold War — another who reportedly befriended one Vladimir Putin in his younger years — but he has since transferred from the backstabbing world of espionage to the backstabbing world of international oil transportation.
He is currently the president of the Russian state-owned company Transneft, an oil and gas logistics organization with over 100,000 employees and an income of $4 billion per year.
Tokarev also previously tried his hand in another part of the state sector as president of Zarubezhneft, also a company involved with oil transportation. Not too shabby.
