Russian oil company Yukos' former deputy chief accountant and a former senior executive at Menatep Bank...
Russian oil company Yukos? former deputy chief accountant and a former senior executive at Menatep Bank, now both staying in Britain, try to avoid extradition to the Russian government with the help of London?s Court.
Dmitry Maruyev and Natalia Chernysheva called governmental action as a "coordinated attack" on the oil company.
Both are under an accusation of falsifying oil and gas contracts to obtain 76 billion rubles ($2.8 billion) from the regional administration of Volgograd. Both former Yukos employees are going to contest the charges at Bow Street Magistrates Court in London.
"This prosecution is in bad faith and for political reasons," Chernysheva's lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, said at a hearing Thursday. "It is part of a coordinated attack against the Yukos company and Khodorkovsky and those people connected with it."
The hearing at the London court is expected to last two weeks, with a judgment expected in April.
