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Worried banks in crisis meeting with Russian oil giant.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2004

By Bernard O'Riordan, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 6--Russia's battered oil giant Yukos is lurching closer towards bankruptcy, with a consortium of 10 banks due to meet the company today after it defaulted on $1 billion (UKpound 550 million) in loans.

The creditor banks -- including Citibank, Societe Generale, Commerzbank, Credit Lyonnais, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING Bank, BNP Paribas, and UFJ Bank's Dutch unit -- have so far not demanded immediate payment of the $1 billion.

But they could do so at any time following the company's formal notification on Friday that it was in default.

The Russian government has ordered Yukos to pay $3.4 billion (UKpound 1.85 billion) in back taxes by Thursday...

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