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The ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the head of the Menatep group Platon Lebedev is accused not only of the sale of oil at transfer prices, but also of theft of shares of subsidiaries of the eastern oil company (VNK). As Vedomosti writes on Thursday with reference to sources familiar with the text of the prosecution, the accused threatens another 25 years in prison.

According to the publication, in 1997, Yukos acquired 54 percent of the VNK shares, which at that time owned the control packages of the Tomskneft shares, the Achinsky refinery and several sales enterprises. Before this transaction, the VNK appealed to the Birkenholz offshore with a request to purchase 6.3 percent of the shares of the Achinsky refinery for her, and the buyer of 36 percent of the VNK shares of the remaining state property should have paid for them.

The securities of the Achinsk refinery purchased by Birkenholz were not in demand on the Russian market. Yukos also refused to buy them, so Offshore through the court achieved the arrest of a stake in the "daughter" of VNK Tomskneft. However, Yukos achieved the withdrawal of the arrest and brought the shares of subsidiaries of the VNK to offshore. Securities returned in 2000, but ended up at Yukos as a security bail for a loan.

As noted by the publication, under the control of Yukos, the VNK lost five CJSC - “VAH”, “Vasyugan”, “I needle”, “Luginetsk” and “Strezheva”. They suspect that these companies owned the mining equipment of Tomskneft, although Yukos himself claimed that they have no value. In 2001, the state decided to sell its BNK stake, which was concerned with the return of its assets.

The damage was estimated, according to the publication, at 8-9.3 billion rubles. However, in 2002, Yukos and the Russian Federal Property Fund (RFFI) entered into an agreement according to which the company returned assets to the VNK, after which the state -owned shares were sold. The Prosecutor General’s Office does not comment on this information.

According to lawyers, if, as, perhaps, in this case, the consequences of the crime were eliminated and no one suffered real damage, then the accused may mitigate the punishment or completely release him from him.

The second part of the accusations is that, according to the prosecutor’s office, under the leadership of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, oil mined by Yukos’s daughters was purchased from them with trading companies at low prices, and then delivered for export at the world. The difference settled in foreign offshores. The accused faces 25 years in prison.