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The Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has completed investigation of a criminal case against one of the main investors of oil company YUKOS Leonid Nevzlin. He is charged with a crime under part 4 of article 160 of the RF Criminal Code (misappropriation).

According to investigators Nevzlin in 1998 as part of an organized group misappropriated 38% holdings of shares of enterprises of Tonskneft VNK, Achinsky NPZ and of others, which (shares) were contributed by the Russian Federation to the chartered capital of Vostochnaya neftyanaya kompaniya (Eastern Oil Company) worth more than 3 billion rubles. Earlier for the same deeds were convicted the YUKOS main shareholders Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev, manager of the organization YUKOS EP Ramil Burganov.

Investigators have collected enough evidence therefore the case is sent to the court for trial in absentia as Nevzlin is internationally wanted, hiding from investigators and court outside Russian territory.