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http://fortune.com/2014/07/28/new-headache-for-putin-as-court-a
ENERGY RUSSIA
New headache for Putin as court awards Yukos shareholders $50 billion
Share iconsby Geoffrey Smith @Geoffreytsmith JULY 28, 2014, 5:44 AM EDT
International court rules that Russia’s takeover of oil company Yukos was
illegal.
As if Vladimir Putin didn’t have enough to worry about, an international
tribunal has now ordered him to pay $50 billion in damages to the former
owners of OAO Yukos, saying that his courts illegally expropriated them.
The ruling is one of the biggest ever against a sovereign state and
threatens to inflame tensions between Russia and Europe still further,
coming at a time when the Ukraine crisis and the downing of Malaysian
Airlines flight MH17 have already driven relations to their lowest point
since the end of the Cold War.
Yukos was the flagship company of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the oligarch whose
fall from grace in 2003 was the defining episode in Putin’s consolidation
of power.
Khodorkovsky was convicted of large-scale tax evasion and jailed for nine
years, while Yukos was broken up and sold for a fraction of its true value
to state-controlled OAO Rosneft. Rosneft is now the largest listed oil
producer in the world, accounting for over 4% of world crude supply.
A crucial part of a Russian economy already showing signs of strain, Rosneft
has been banned from U.S. capital markets, limiting its ability to deliver
new projects.
Khodorkovsky distanced himself from the Yukos business after his conviction,
but a handful of associates continued to press their suit through three
holding companies at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Dutch capital
of the Hague. A parallel suit on behalf of all Yukos shareholders is also
being heard by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, and
is expected to rule Thursday.
The PCA has jurisdiction over disputes arising under the 1994 Energy Charter
, an international treaty on investments in the energy sector which Russia
originally signed but never ratified. In 2009, it withdrew entirely from the
process.
As such, the chances of Russia recognising the court’s ruling are close to
zero, meaning that the shareholders will have to look to the courts again to
enforce their claims. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the
country would appeal the decision.
Leonid Nevzlin, one of the ex-shareholders behind the suit, told the Ekho
Moskvy radio station that they would “search for and freeze Russian assets
around the world” if need be.
In a statement on its website, Rosneft said it wasn’t a party to the ruling
, which is directed at the Russian state. “Rosneft doesn’t consider that
there can be any claims against the company in relation to the decisions
published, or that the rulings could negatively affect the company’s
commercial activity.”
The timing of the judgment, coming so soon after the MH17 disaster, is sure
to provoke accusations of selective, politicised justice from Russia–
exactly the kind of justice that Khodorkovsky’s associates were initially
complaining against.
There are already indications that Russia may use its legal system to exert
its own pressure on the West by hitting western companies there, McDonalds
Corp being one of the first to be hit.
Khodorkovsky and his partners in what became known as Group Menatep rose to
power through dubious privatizations in the 1990s and then sought to cement
their influence by sponsoring a wide range of Russian lawmakers.
By winning what amounted to a trial of strength between his ruling clan of
former security service men and the class of Yeltsin-era oligarchs, Putin
broke the back of organised political opposition in Russia and his power has
never seriously been threatened since.
“It’s wonderful that the company’s shareholders will get the chance to be
compensated for their losses, but sad that this compensation will come from
the state budget, and not from the pockets of the mafiosi close to the
government,” Khodorkovsky said in a statement on his website.
Khodorkovsky now lives in Switzerland . |
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