Russia intends to receive information about the foreign assets of Yukos through the court

Russia filed a lawsuit in the high court of London with the Dutch company Financial Performance Holdings (FPH), within the framework of which it may require disclosing data on all foreign assets of the former oil giant. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the head of the International Center for Legal Protection Andrei Kondakov, coordinating the defense of Russia in processes against shareholders of Yukos.

At the hearing in London, Yukos shareholders can be interrogated.

According to Kondakov, a lawsuit was filed against the Dutch structure to cover legal costs. In 2014, this company, through the Standing Chamber of the Arbitration Court in The Hague, demanded to pay her $ 3.5 billion as an successor to the offshore company Glendale, who owned Yukos bills, but then abandoned the lawsuit.

By decision of the Hague arbitration, FPH was supposed to compensate Russia with legal costs, but refused to do this, Kondakov claims.

On July 9, the court in Brussels lifted the arrest from all Russian assets that were blocked at the request of the former shareholders of the Yukos, who achieved 50 billion dollars from Russia by decision of the Hague arbitration. It was about several real estate objects of the TASS and RIA Novosti news agencies, as well as bank accounts used to pay for housing of Russian diplomats.

In July 2014, the arbitration court in the Hague satisfied the lawsuit of the former shareholders of the Yukos Hulley Enterprises, Yukos Universal and Vetran Petroleum, obliging Russia to pay them 50 billion dollars as compensation for the expropriation of the company. In the same month, the European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to pay the same plaintiffs compensation for 1.86 billion euros, as well as 300 thousand euros as a compensation for legal costs.

According to the arbitration resolution, the Russian side in the early 2000s made a full-scale attack on the oil company and its beneficiaries in order to bankrupt it and master its assets, simultaneously removing the head of the company Mikhail Khodorkovsky from the political arena.

In November 2014, Russia filed three petitions to the Hague County Court to cancel the arbitration decisions made by the Hague arbitration court according to the claims of the former shareholders of the Yukos.

On April 20 last year, the Gaaga District Court canceled the decision of the arbitration court. The Court of Appeal found that the competence of the arbitration did not include consideration of claims of this kind.

In July, Hulley Enterprises, Yukos Universal and Vetran Petroleum appealed to the decision of the Hague District Court . "We remain firmly in our intention to hold the Russian Federation accountable for the expropriation of Yukos," said Tim Osborn, the head of representing the interests of GML HML plaintiffs. He is sure that "the appeal will be successful."