Please find attached Pleading Notes of the Russian Federation delivered at The Hague Court of Appeal on 23-24 and 30 September 2019 RF Pleading Notes on 23 September 2019 – Morning Session RF Pleading Notes on 23 September 2019 – Afternoon Session RF Pleading Notes on 24 September 2019 – Unclean Hands RF Pleading Notes […]
23, 24, and 30 September 2019 The Hague Court of Appeal will conduct oral hearings in relation to the annulment of the awards in the former Yukos shareholders arbitrations, which had held the Russian Federation liable for US$50 billion in damages plus interest. The Yukos awards had already been annuled in April 2016 by The […]
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This ICLP site provides the information needed to understand the Yukos case in detail. It contains original court documents as well as first-hand accounts of how Yukos was managed, given by senior managers who worked in Yukos at the time.
It therefore reveals the facts behind the false evidence put forward by the Yukos oligarchs.
READ MORE ABOUT ICLPIn the arbitration the oligarchs claimed that Yukos was misappropriated by Russia in a politically motivated move. Russia believes the oligarchs illegally took control of Yukos through rigged auctions and corruption, then evaded billions in tax. Yukos failed when it didn’t pay the tax it owed.
Read more about court actions8 Aug 2016
Mr. Gololobov served as Yukos Deputy General Counsel and was a member of the Oligarchs’ inner circle from 1995 to 2004. He is the first key Yukos insider to come forward to speak in specific detail about the billion-dollar bribery scheme run by the Yukos oligarchs.
20 Apr 2016
The Dutch District Court in the Hague ruled that the panel of three arbitrators was wrong to consider itself to have jurisdiction in the case and threw out the $50bn awards in their entirety, awarding costs against the Yukos oligarchs.
29 Mar 2016
An interesting diagram portraying the way in which the Oligarchs transferred their shares in a number of complicated stages ultimately hiding their ownership.