19 May 2004 01:22 Samaraneftegaz, Yukos suspected of owing 3 bln rubles in taxes
"The searches in the oil company have taken place as part of an
investigation for the failure to pay taxes by the Samaraneftegaz
MOSCOW. May 19 (Interfax) - The Russian Interior Ministry has confirmed that a series of searches were conducted in
the Yukos oil company's central office in Moscow.
company together with Yukos. A tentative report suggests that these companies did not pay about 3 billion rubles in
taxes to the budget between 1996-2000," Tatiana Mironenko, press secretary of the Interior Ministry's Federal
Service for Economic and Tax Crimes, told Interfax on Wednesday. [RU EUROPE EEU EMRG CRIM LAW OIL] tm tj <>
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