Yukos chiefs offer shares to free boss

The owners of the holding company that controls Russia’s largest oil company Yukos, have offered their stock to the government in exchange for the release of former Yukos chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Leonid Nevzlin said that he and other core Group Menatep shareholders had offered to turn over their stake in the company to the government if it agreed to let Khodorkovsky out of jail.