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Yukos executives flee to Israel after CEO's arrest
CEO Mikhail
Khodorkovsky, under arrest in Russia, has resigned, and transferred his
stake to Leonid Nevzlin, now in Israel.
Sharon Kedmi and Avi Weinreb
3 Nov
0315:44
Sources inform
Globes that most of the Jewish senior executives in Russian oil company
Yukos, the worlds fourth largest oil company, have fled to Israel, and
are staying at a hotel in the center of the country. Other Jewish
executives have either been arrested in Russia, or have had their
movements restricted there.
It was reported last week that Yukos shareholder Leonid
Nevzlin had been resident in Israel for several weeks, and had submitted a
request for Israeli citizenship. Several other Yukos senior executives
joined Nevzlin last week, including Vladimir Dubov. Vasily Shaknovsky did
not manage to leave Russia.
On the basis of informed Russian sources, The Wall Street
Journal reported today that Yukos controlling shareholder and CEO Mikhail
Khodorkovsky, arrested 10 days ago in Russian on suspicion of fraud and
tax violations, last week transferred the voting rights to most of his
Yukos shares to Nevzlin.
Nevzlin himself owns 10-15% of Yukos. At current market
value, his shares are worth 83-124 billion rubles ($2.75-4 billion).
Today, Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced his resignation as Yukos CEO, saying
he was sure that there were suitable people in the company who would
replace him. It is believed that one of the comany executives who have
fled to Israel may take the vacant CEO position.
At the end of last week, the prosecutors froze the 42% of
Yukos owned by Khodorkovsky and his partners. Unfreezing the shares is
likely to be a lengthy process, but the shares have not been nationalized
or confiscated.
The prosecution asserts that the freezing of the shares
most of which are owned by offshore companies outside Russia, is designed
to guarantee the payment of $1 billion in damages, should Khodorkovsky and
his colleagues be convicted of fraud and tax evasion.
Freezing the shares, however, has prompted concern in
Russia and the West that the state might attempt to confiscate the shares.
At stake is the control of an oil producer nearly the size of Exxon Mobil
Corp.
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on November 3,
2003
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