16 June 2004 02:01
Yukos bankruptcy possible, but not desirable - Volsky
Volsky said that "the situation is going in that direction."
However, he said that he is categorically against Yukos being
MOSCOW. June 16 (Interfax) - Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Chief Arkady Volsky said in an
interview in the Ekho Moskvy radio station that he does not rule out the possibility of Yukos being bankrupted.
bankrupted. "We have 175,000 people working at Yukos. Do you understand what the bankruptcy of such a company
means, it would leave all of these people without wages," he said.
On the previous day the Prosecutor General's Office said that
Volsky's announcement, sharply critical of the arrest of Yukos
Volsky said that the tax claims against Yukos could be paid using "money from company leaders, that are sitting
in prison."
Volsky also denied that he put pressure on the court, as charged by the Prosecutor General's Office.
management "can only be considered to be pressure on the court, on the eve to the court hearings against Mikhail
Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev."
"That is stupid, because it is impossible to put pressure on the court," Volsky said. [RU EUROPE ASIA EEU
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