Minority TNK-BP Shareholder Inflates BP Claim to $13 Billion

摘要

BP faces a setback in its ongoing legalbattle over its Russian joint venture, afterwinning a couple of victories earlier thisweek, when a Tyumen arbitration courtsaid on Thursday it would allow a minori-ty shareholder in TNK-BP Holding to uphis claim for damages against the UK ma-jor and its directors to just over 409 bil-lion rubles ($13.1 billion).Andrei Prokhorov, who owns just0.0000106% of the stock in TNK-BPHolding, is suing for losses allegedlycaused TNK-BP by BP’s failed tie-up withstate oil giant Rosneft.