As of April 29 the Russian oil firm Jukos is a 49 per cent shareholder in Slovak pipelines firm Transpetrol, with control of the board of directors and changed company statutes. Jukos had signed a contract for the stake, which it won with a bid of $74 million, on January 29.
Compiled by Tom Nicholson from press reports.
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