The European Court of Human Rightswill on Sep. 20 announce its ruling in acase that could potentially see the Russiangovernment pay a record $98 billion in damages to shareholders in now-defunctoil firm Yukos.Shareholders claim the Russian govern-ment orchestrated a deliberate campaign in2006 to bankrupt what had been the coun-try’s biggest oil producer through illegal taxclaims. After destroying Yukos, which theappeal says had been “Russia’s best gov-erned, most transparent, fastest-growingand largest oil company,” all its assets werehanded to state oil giant Rosneft.
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