Khodorkovsky Allies Turn Hunters for $140 Billion Rulings
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One by one, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s partners in Yukos Oil Co. fled Russia to escape prosecution as President Vladimir Putin’s agents hunted for their billions.
Now, more than a decade after Khodorkovsky’s arrest kicked off the country’s largest nationalization campaign since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, those allies say they’re on the verge of winning international court rulings that would empower them to pursue Russian state assets abroad as payback.