The Prosecutor General of the Netherlands considered that the court decision from 2014 on the payment of compensation to former Yukos shareholders should remain in force. He called on to pay them tens of billions of dollars, RIA Novosti reports.
It is about the amount of over $ 50 billion. “The Arbitration Decision of 2014, which obliging the Russian Federation to pay approximately 50 billion dollars in compensation for the inability to protect the investment of the three main shareholders of the YUKOS oil company, should be left in force,” the Agency leads an excerpt from imprisonment of the Prosecutor General.
Former shareholders of the YUKOS company filed to international arbitration in the Hague lawsuit in 2005. Initially, the court arose to their side and ordered Russia to pay them $ 50 billion. The decision abolished the district court of the Hague, but then the appellate instance fell to the side of the shareholders.
For its part, the Constitutional Court of Russia allowed not to pay for the former Yukos shareholders. In general, the Russian side is ready for a protracted proceedings: Moscow claims that she has serious arguments. In particular, in the Ministry of Justice, the plaintiffs have repeatedly made financial crimes in their homeland: they did not pay taxes and illegally detected capital, and therefore they cannot be considered conscientious investors.