BP Knows a Good Deal When It Sees One 1.62K Jeff Neumann 01/16/11 01:49PM Filed to: Oil Oil Russia Bp oil spill Mikhail khodorkovsky arctic Just two weeks after ex-Yukos Oil boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to another six years in Russian prison, BP pulled a share swap, exchanging $7.8 billion of stock in the company holding Yukos' assets for a 9.5 percent stake. Convenient!