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MOSCOW (AP) - Russian prosecutors said Wednesday they have charged three former employees of the shattered Yukos oil company, one of them a Spanish passport-holder, with money laundering and theft.
A statement posted on the Web site of the prosecutor general's office said that Antonio Valdes Garcia, who has dual Spanish and Russian citizenship, had siphoned $13 billion (11 billion euros) from the firm by organizing fictional oil sales along with two other Yukos managers, who are in detention.
The statement said $8.5 billion of that sum had subsequently been laundered.
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