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According to Vedomosti, the injunction, which stems from legal disputes during bankruptcy proceedings against Yukos in 2007, could jeopardize payments by foreign customers for Rosneft"s oil deliveries.

Once Russia"s largest oil producer, Yukos collapsed after charges of tax evasion led to the company being broken up and sold off to meet debts. The bulk of the company"s assets were bought up by state-run oil company Rosneft.

Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud and tax evasion, has consistently denied all charges against him, saying he was punished for supporting the tiny pro-Western opposition, and that the liquidation of Yukos was engineered by corrupt government officials aiming to seize lucrative oil assets.

Rosneft"s shares tumbled on Wednesday on the news of the U.S. court injunction, raising fears about the company"s exposure to a string of lawsuits threatening some of its key assets.

In a similar case,

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