The Moscow Arbitration Court has ordered for the battered company's creditor list to include the Federal Tax Service's claim of 42 billion rubles ($1.58 billion), along with claims from oil companies Ulyanovsknefteprodukt (21.7 million rubles/$814,000), Tomsknefteprodukt (41.6 million rubles/$1.6 million), and Ecoproekt 6.2 million rubles ($233,000), the statement said.
Yukos, whose founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky is serving an eight-year prison term in Siberia after being convicted of fraud in May 2005, was declared bankrupt by the court on August 1, upholding a July 25 vote by the company's creditors.
The company's debt stood at 586.6 billion rubles ($22 billion) as of November 2. The list of creditors, which originally numbered around 50, has now expanded to more than 60, the statement said.
Yukos faces another 42.8 million rubles ($1.6 billion) in debt claims, including 38 billion rubles ($1.43 billion) from the tax service. Court hearings on these claims have been postponed until December 25.
