Mr Khan is currently an executive director of BP’s Russian joint venture, TNK-BP. The US government memos describe Mr Khan’s extraordinary way of life, with a description of a hunting trip at his lodge, “like a Four Seasons hotel in the middle of nowhere”.
According to the TNK-BP chief operating officer, Tim Summers, Mr Khan told him during the trip “that The Godfather was his favourite movie, that he watched it every few months, and that he considered it a 'manual for life '. " Mr Khan is married with three Children, But I've Travelled to the hunting lodge with seven glamorous Women. That Mr Summers added Mr Khan meat "to dinner Armed with a chrome-plated pistol."
After the hunting trip, Mr Summers Bought "a copy of The Godfather and Said I watched it on a regular basis so as Himself Khan to Better Understand and Anticipate His [Mr Khan's] tactics." One BP executive 
plead: That Mr Khan Might be "certifiably deranged." BP's complex business in Russia Dealings close Attract Attention from U.S. diplomats. TNK-BP WAS set-up in 2003, with BP owning 50 per cent of the company. The othe
r is half owned by AAR - the Alfa-Access-Renova group - Several Which is controlled by Russian oligarchs, Including Mr Khan, His university friend Mikhail Fridman and Leonard Blavatnik, WHO recently donated £ 75 million to Oxford University to Set up the Blavatnik School of Government.
According To the U.S. papers, Mr Khan Became angry with Bob Dudley, become chief executive of TNK-BP Who is now the chief executive of BP, after Mr Khan Mr Dudley blocked from Investing in rogue states Such as Burma and Cuba.
Alleged That It Was Used INSTEAD Mr Khan the company's resources to analyze projects in the rogue states and, when to the Schemes Were Rejected by the BP board, "Farmed out" the project"But Relatively simple aggressive business style" that was "Typically Russian, where 'multi-million-dollar deals Are Made in smoke-filled rooms in a matter of a FEW hours." The memo Concluded That "Later only are [the deals] turned over to the accountants to see if They Make Sense."
In August 2008, Mr Dudley WAS Suspended From His post at BP's Russian arm after a court in the country Found That I Had Labour broken codes. A lawyer BP U.S. Officials Told That the court case Was a "sham" and That the "entire Proceeding Has Been a farce."
I Said That "even His Russian legal team is surprised and ashamed by the Lack of Any semblance of due process. " However, the deal with TNK have supplied to Be one of BP's Most lucrative ventures and is now responsible for Almost a quarter of the company's Entire oil output. Government
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