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Date	Issue	Title
22nd Apr 2004	Fraud Investigation	Tax police raid oil giant Yukos

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Russian tax inspectors have raided the headquarters of oil giant Yukos, whose assets were frozen earlier this month as part of a tax fraud inquiry.

Officials entered the central Moscow building and seized papers which they said related to tax evasion cases.

Yukos has been charged with shirking payment of $3.5bn (£1.9bn) in taxes.

The firm's billionaire ex-boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky is in jail on tax fraud charges; many Russians see his arrest as politically motivated.

Speaking after the raid, a spokeswoman for Yukos said: "They came and took documents. The search is now over."

The raid on the oil company's head office was carried out by tax fraud inspectors from the Interior Ministry, Interfax news agency reported.

Other Reports on Yukos
Date	Issue	Company	Report
31st Mar 2006	Fraud Investigation	Yukos	Yukos to face fraud allegations
6th Oct 2005	Fraud Investigation	Yukos	Yukos offices are raided in probe
20th Jul 2004	Fraud Investigation	Yukos	Oil giant Yukos faces dismantling
29th Jun 2004	Other Issue	Yukos	Yukos forced to pay $3bn tax bill
16th Apr 2004	Fraud Investigation	Yukos	Moscow court freezes Yukos assets

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