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| Dutch Supreme Court backs Russia over Yukos oligarchs in $57 billion arbitration case | Dutch Supreme Court backs Russia over Yukos oligarchs in $57 billion arbitration case |
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| The Dutch Supreme Court has overturned a 2014 ruling by a Hague-based arbitration tribunal that ordered Russia to pay $57 billion to former shareholders of Yukos, a defunct oil giant once owned by ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. | The Dutch Supreme Court has overturned a 2014 ruling by a Hague-based arbitration tribunal that ordered Russia to pay $57 billion to former shareholders of Yukos, a defunct oil giant once owned by ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. |
| “Today the Supreme Court quashed the appeal court’s final judgement as well as the court’s preceding judgement,” the Supreme Court said in a statement on Friday, noting that the case would be referred to the Amsterdam Court of Appeal for “renewed judgement.” | “Today the Supreme Court quashed the appeal court’s final judgement as well as the court’s preceding judgement,” the Supreme Court said in a statement on Friday, noting that the case would be referred to the Amsterdam Court of Appeal for “renewed judgement.” |
| The judges contended that Russia had acceptable grounds for appealing the 2014 ruling and ordered the Appeals Court to reconsider the claims that the former shareholders had committed fraud. | The judges contended that Russia had acceptable grounds for appealing the 2014 ruling and ordered the Appeals Court to reconsider the claims that the former shareholders had committed fraud. |
| The court noted that Russia’s other objections to the 2014 ruling had been rejected. | |
| In a statement, the court claimed that, among other things, Russia’s primary objection concerned the way in which the Court of Appeal dealt with Moscow’s argument that the shareholders allegedly committed fraud during the arbitration procedure. | |
| The ruling comes after seven years of legal wrangling following the verdict of the arbitration tribunal in 2014 which claimed Moscow had violated its international obligations for taking steps to bankrupt the massive oil company in the early 2000s. | |
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