YUKOS OFFICER DETAINED ON SUSPECTED EMBEZZLEMENT

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MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti) - Svetlana Bakhmina, Yukos/Moscow legal department deputy manager, was detained on embezzlement suspicion, yesterday, a spokeswoman of the federal Prosecutor General's PR board said to Novosti.

Bakhmina and her alleged accomplices are suspected of embezzling Tomskneft and East Petroleum Company, or VNK, assets to eight billion roubles, added our informant.

Dmitri Gololobov, Yukos legal adviser, appeared on the international "wanted" list, the top prosecutor's PR announced, November 18.

Our informant says the lawyer is suspected of misappropriating a VNK block of shares to a sum exceeding three billion roubles, roughly US$100 million.

Gololobov is presently outside Russia, and investigators are sure he has fled on purpose.

"Gololobov certainly expected to be indicted, what with his flat and office searched, and the law court warranting criminal proceedings launched against him. The suspect was last summoned for questioning, October 9. He never appeared, and promptly left Russia," says one of the top prosecutor's officers.

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