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The Head Office of the Investigative Committee continues the investigation against former managers and owners of OAO NK YUKOS, a public corporation, suspected of stealing assets of the oil company, the state and other organizations and money laundering under Articles 174.1, 159 and 160 of the RF Penal Code.

Investigators has gotten information that Zoya Svetova was keeping documents that can confirm the transfer of money stolen by Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his accomplices in the Russian Federation which they then spent. The investigators are searching Svetova’s residence today and it is in strict accordance with the RF Criminal Procedure Code and with the court order.

The search has nothing to do with Svetova’s professional activity or her human rights activity, but intends only to check the circumstances under which the money stolen by Khodorkovsky and other accomplices were laundered.

Acting Head of Media Relations                                                                                                              S.L. Petrenko