01:01Russia: Ex-Yukos CEO Khodorkovsky may have "ordered" 1998 murder of Nefteyugansk Mayor Petukhov
Former CEO of Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky will most likely be interrogated in a murder case and might be accused of murder, spokesman of the Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin announced in Moscow, Tuesday.
Markin in a press statement declared that the murder case of Nefteyugansk Mayor Vladimir Petukhov in 1998 has been reopened after new evidence emerged and went on to say that the new information suggests that the one-time oligarch may have "ordered" the hit.
In June of 1998 Nefteyugansk Mayor Petukhov was killed while travelling to his office in the city which was a major base to Yukos, the former oil and gas company which was declared bankrupt in 2006.
Yukos Universal Limited was awarded €1.6 billion ($1,8 billion) in damages by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague in July 2014, as part of a total settlement for approximately €44 billion ($50 billion), the court ruled was owed to its former shareholders and management.
01:01Former CEO of Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky will most likely be interrogated in a murder case and might be accused of murder, spokesman of the Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin announced in Moscow, Tuesday.
Markin in a press statement declared that the murder case of Nefteyugansk Mayor Vladimir Petukhov in 1998 has been reopened after new evidence emerged and went on to say that the new information suggests that the one-time oligarch may have "ordered" the hit.
In June of 1998 Nefteyugansk Mayor Petukhov was killed while travelling to his office in the city which was a major base to Yukos, the former oil and gas company which was declared bankrupt in 2006.
Yukos Universal Limited was awarded €1.6 billion ($1,8 billion) in damages by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague in July 2014, as part of a total settlement for approximately €44 billion ($50 billion), the court ruled was owed to its former shareholders and management.