Yukos have paid 75% of tax owed

More than 75% of the beleaguered Yukos oil company’s 2000 tax debt has been recovered from the company, a Russian Justice Ministry official was quoted as saying today.

Andrei Belyakov, head of the Ministry of Justice’s bailiff department, told the Interfax news agency that bailiffs now had 75 billion roubles (€2.1bn) of Yukos’ 99bn (€3bn) roubles tax bill.