Yukos tycoon's business partner waives right to call witnesses; fears intimidation
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MOSCOW  - Citing fears of intimidation, lawyers representing the business partner of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky filed a motion Monday waiving the right to call defence witnesses as their client's fraud and tax evasion trial drags on.
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Deutsche Bank has filed a motion to dismiss a bankruptcy claim by Yukos in the US after a Houston court barred the German bank from lending money to Gazprom to bid for Yuganskneftegas, Yukos&#39;s main asset.
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The majority owner of embattled Russian oil company Yukos threatened legal action Monday against potential suitors for its main subsidiary, which is to be auctioned off by the government next Sunday.
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Yukos, the Russian oil group, might file for bankruptcy in the next few days unless the Russian authorities reduce the pressure they have been applying, its chief financial officer Bruce Misamore said in an interview with the Financial Times.
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Russian oil giant Yukos has reportedly lost a court case against the sale of its main production unit.
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OAO Yukos Oil Co., Russia&#39;s second- largest oil producer, said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US and asked for an emergency court hearing to stop the sale of its main unit in four days.
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Top Russian oil exporter YUKOS  threatened to escalate its legal battle abroad Tuesday as the  mystery surrounding the buyer of its core asset began to lift  with newspapers linking it to Russia's No. 4 oil firm,  Surgutneftegaz.
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The Russian government on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for the chief lawyer for Yukos, the country&#39;s No. 1 oil producer, and arrested a midlevel executive at a company subsidiary.
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Russian oil group YUKOS has filed for bankruptcy protection in a US court in an attempt to stop the Russian government from auctioning off its main production unit on Dec.
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The sale of Russian oil company Yukos' main production unit to a mystery buyer in a forced auction further erodes confidence in Russia's legal institutions, the State Department said on Monday.
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Fears of a management bailout at the embattled oil giant Yukos loomed large Thursday after the company&#39;s chief financial officer said he had delayed his return to Moscow indefinitely after Russian prosecutors summoned him for questioning.
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Stricken Russian oil firm YUKOS may ask  a U.S. judge on Wednesday to find Gazprom in breach of a court  order for participating in the weekend sale of YUKOS's core  asset, which could expose the state gas giant to asset  seizures.
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Accounts held by Yukos have been seized and the company could be forced to halt production, the Russian oil giant warned today. A Moscow court granted a state prosecutor&#39;s request &quot;to seize
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HOUSTON - Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled natural-gas giant, yesterday appealed a US bankruptcy judge&#39;s order that granted oil giant Yukos a temporary injunction halting the auction of its key production subsidiary.
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Yukos chief financial officer Bruce Mismore on Thursday testified that Russian authorities were threatening him with legal action and possible extradition
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A core shareholder in the company that owns about 60 percent of the shattered oil giant Yukos promised in an interview published Wednesday to sue Russian authorities for the destruction of what was once the nation's biggest oil producer.
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Stricken Russian oil giant Yukos was hoping that a US court would grant it bankruptcy protection, scaring off Western banks planning to finance a Russian state-directed takeover of its main asset.