NK Yukos will prosecute any buyer of Yuganskneftegaz, writes the Financial Times. According to lawyers, the Houston court's order banning transactions with Yukos assets remains in force and applies to all parties to the transaction. Yukos lawyers said that the ban also applies to Rosneft, although this company was not mentioned in the court decision.

One of Yukos' lawyers said that the company intends to wait until the sale of Yuganskneftegaz is completed before taking legal action against the buyer. At the same time, lawyers have already asked the Houston court to recognize that Gazprom violated the ban on the sale of Yuganskneftegaz because it participated in the auction.

According to YUKOS representative in the United States, Richard Mintz, the company intends to recover $20 billion from the buyer of Yuganskneftegaz, RIA Novosti reports . “This is the most expensive game of hide and seek in history,” the Financial Times quotes one of the company’s lawyers as saying.

The auction for the sale of Yuganskneftegaz took place on Sunday. The winner of the auction was the company "Baikalfinancegroup", which had not proven itself in any way until then. On Thursday night it became known that the state company Rosneft bought a 100 percent stake in Baikalfinance Group and thus became the owner of Yuganskneftegaz.

The second participant in the auction, Gazprom, did not make a single bid at the auction. Meanwhile, reports emerged on Thursday that the gas monopoly intends to continue its merger with Rosneft. According to the Vedomosti newspaper, the corresponding decision will be approved at a meeting of the Gazprom board of directors on Thursday.

Yukos threatens Rosneft with court