Investors in dismantled oil company Yukos deserve almost 1.9 billion euros in compensation because of the improper way Russia dissolved the company almost a decade ago, announced the European Court of Human Rights Thursday, according to dpa. Shareholders and their heirs are owed almost 1.9 billion euros, ruled the court, which took its decision June 24 but only publicized it Thursday. Under the verdict, reimbursement is expected within six months. Russia was also ordered to pay an additional 300,000 euros to the Yukos International Foundation. The ruling comes days after the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague ruled that Russia owed shareholders 50 billion dollars in compensation for the way it disposed of Yukos. Yukos was dissolved by the government after its chief executive, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Kremlin critic, was jailed for tax evasion. Khodorkovsky spent nine years in prison before being pardoned last year by President Vladimir Putin.
