Бизнес по-комсомольски
Khodorkovsky contributed capital from the NTTM profits, and soon began making himself loans to fund his computer import business. Then he found a loophole that allowed him into an even more lucrative trade: the exchange of hard currency. It was now that his business really took off. He could change roubles for dollars at the official fixed state price of sixty-five kopecks to the dollar, and then sell computers at a price worth forty roubles to the dollar. The profits were enormous. The Soviet central bank granted Menatep one of the first licences to trade hard currency, and soon the bank was transferring huge amounts of money abroad.