Monte-Valle Buys Yukos’ Energy Assets
Mysterious company Monte-Valle, founded by unnamed U.S. citizen has won the fourth auction for sale of property of bankrupt Yukos Oil Company.
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April 17, 2007Yukos
Russian Watchdog Promises New Checks for East Siberian Oil Fields
Russia’s mineral resources watchdog Rosprirodnadzor said on Tuesday, April 10, that it will resume the probes into development of oil fields in East Siberia in May-June 2007 and will revoke licenses from operators who fail to comply with license agreements.
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April 11, 2007Russia May Strip PricewaterhouseCoopers of License
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a respected foreign audit company, may lose its operating license in Russia over accusations from Moscow city tax officials that the company helped the bankrupt Yukos oil company evade taxes, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports quoting an article in the Kommersant daily.
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April 2, 2007- Posted in: Russia, Yukos, Business & Finance
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Rosneft Buys Its Own Shares for $7.6 Billion
On Tuesday, March 27, a subsidiary of the state-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft a 9.44-percent stake in Rosneft that had been owned by the bankrupt oil giant Yukos at an auction.
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March 27, 2007Jailed Yukos CEO to Be Transferred to Moscow
A Moscow court ordered Mikhail Khodorkovsky transferred from a Siberian prison to a detention facility in the Russian capital amid a new investigation into theft and money laundering charges against the former oil tycoon, The Associated Press news agency reported on Tuesday quoting Khodorkovsky’s lawyer.
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March 21, 2007- Posted in: Russia, Human Rights, Money Laundering, Oil & Gas, Yukos, Business & Finance, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Prison
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Yukos Assets To Be Auctioned on March 27
The assets of Russia’s Yukos oil company will be sold at an auction on March 27.
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February 23, 2007- Posted in: Russia, Oil & Gas, Yukos, Business & Finance, Rosneft
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Chevron Interested in Yukos Assets
US oil major Chevron is looking into buying assets of Yukos. Several international companies, including Chevron, had inquired about participating in any auction or sale of the assets of Yukos, the onetime Russian oil major driven to bankruptcy.
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February 9, 2007Russia Blames Exiled Tycoons With Spy Poisoning
Russian investigators believe a former Yukos’ shareholder ordered the mysterious killing of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko. The investigators suspect that Leonid Nevzlin, who lives in exile in Israel, ordered the murder of Litvinenko, Russian daily Kommersant reported.
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December 29, 2006- Posted in: Russia, Israel, Yukos, Spy, Boris Berezovsky, London, Alexander Litvinenko, Leonid Nevzlin
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Three Russian Oligarchs Still Wanted by Russia
Businessmen Leonid Nevzlin, Vladimir Gusinsky and Boris Berezovsky still remain on the Interpol internationally wanted list, head of the Interpol bureau in Russia Timur Lakhonin said at a press conference at Interfax.
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December 12, 2006- Posted in: Russia, Boris Berezovsky, Police, Leonid Nevzlin, Vladimir Gusinsky
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Russia Holds Israeli Prisoners Hostage, Seeks to Swap Them for Wanted Tycoon
Moscow has continuously denied four Israeli nationals convicted in Russia permission to serve their prison terms at home, unless Israel extradites Jewish Russian-born entrepreneur Leonid Nevzlin, once the second-in-command of Yukos and business partner of the jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, leading Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth wrote Tuesday in a report headlined “Putin’s Israeli Hostagesâ€.
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December 5, 2006- Posted in: Russia, Moscow, Israel, Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Leonid Nevzlin
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