The jailed founder of Russia's Yukos oil giant, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accused the Russian government Monday of "destroying" the country's top oil company by auctioning off its main asset. "The state has offered itself a wonderful Christmas present, destroying the most efficient oil company in Russia," he said the day after the firm's core production subsidiary after was sold off to a mystery buyer seen as linked to state interests.
"Yuganskneftegaz was sold according to the best traditions of the 1990s," a period marked by murky privatisations, added Khodorkovsky in a statement released by his lawyers.
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