Yukos says Germany aided Kremlin over key asset sale

Yukos, the stricken Russian oil group, has accused the German government of complicity in the appropriation of its main operating unit Yuganskneftegaz.

Robert Amsterdam, the lawyer who represents the main shareholder of Yukos, Menatep, and its imprisoned former chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky, alleged yesterday that Deutsche Bank was acting as a “proxy” for the German state over the affair. The Kremlin forced Yukos to sell the Yugansk unit.

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