11 June 2004 20:49 Swiss court defreezes account frozen in relation to Yukos case - attorney
"A Swiss court defreezed one account of one company that had been
frozen at the demand of the Russian Prosecutor General's office in
MOSCOW. June 11 (Interfax) - Genrikh Padva, an attorney of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has announced that
a Swiss court has partly cancelled the decision of the federal authorities to freeze the accounts of the oil
company's shareholders.
relation to the Yukos case," he told Interfax Thursday evening.
He said he did not know of any other accounts of Yukos or MENATEP group shareholders being defreezed.
Nevertheless, Padva described the decision as very serious and giving hope that the freeze on other accounts will be
lifted too. [RU ASIA EUROPE EEU EMRG CORA ENR CRIM CH WEU BNK] ml
[Interfax] |