The three new managing directors of the $30 billion holding are Kevin Bromley, director of IFG International, an Isle of Man trust company; Nicholas Keeling, a Gibraltar-based lawyer; and Tim Osborne, senior partner of Wiggin Osborne Fullerlove, an English law firm specializing in international tax.
They will "jointly manage the operations of the company following the death of Mr. Stephen Curtis," Group Menatep said in a statement.
Curtis died in a helicopter crash in southern England, the cause of which is still being investigated. Some media reports suggest that shortly before his death, Curtis became an informant for British intelligence.
Curtis was appointed to run Gibraltar-based Group Menatep shortly after the October arrest of then-Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky on charges of fraud and tax evasion. Curtis replaced another key Yukos and Menatep shareholder, Platon Lebedev, who has been imprisoned on charges similar to those brought against Khodorkovsky.
"Both Bromley and Keeling have given advice to Menatep in the past," a source close to Menatep said Sunday. "Osborne, I think, is new to the group."
The source said that three people were chosen for the vacancy because they represented three different jurisdictions: the Isle of Man, Gibraltar and London.
The trio is to have equal authority, the source said, with none of them enjoying a senior status.
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