Prosecutors Again Raid Yukos Offices

Russian prosecutors have again raided the offices of the country's giant oil firm Yukos, seizing financial documents covering the past two years.

Company officials say investigators confiscated documents and other data.

Yukos is already struggling to pay a $3.4 billion tax judgment for the year 2000 already upheld by the courts. A similar claim for 2001 is still before the courts.

Former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky is on trial for alleged tax fraud, a charge he says was brought in retaliation for his support of the political opposition. The Kremlin denies the allegation.

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