A Moscow court has issued an arrest warrant for Yukos billionaire Leonid Nevzlin on charges he organized a double contract killing and a string of attempted murders.
Nevzlin, who was Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky's right-hand man, has been charged with "entering into a criminal plot with Yukos' internal and economic security chief Alexander Pichugin to kill certain individuals who posed a ... danger to the company, and to Nevzlin and Pichugin," the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement issued Monday.
News of the arrest warrant, which was sanctioned by Moscow's Basmanny Court on Friday, comes in the wake of nearly a year of mounting pressure on Yukos' majority shareholders, including the jailing of Khodorkovsky last October on charges of fraud and tax evasion and a government announcement last week that it was preparing to sell off the oil firm's majority stake in its core production unit to pay off tax debts.
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