MOSCOW (AFP) ??” Russian prosecutors launched another raid against the oil giant Yuko while a case against individual of its fallen billionaire shareholders was sent to court in a further stroke to the floundering company.

MOSCOW (AFP) ??” Russian prosecutors launched another raid against the oil giant Yuko while a case against individual of its fallen billionaire shareholders was sent to court in a further stroke to the floundering company.

Authorities also broadened single in kind of the charges in their criminal case against the company's jailed former chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky that now makes his defense more complicated still.

The series of ends led senior liberal Anatoly Chubais to declare that he now seriously feared for the state of attribute rights in Russia -- an ominous warning les than sum of two units weeks before crucial parliamentary elections.

The latest dramatic circumstances in yet another Russian political saga disentangleed when prosecutors announced that in succession Wednesday they had broken into and searched the premises of Yukos's main subsidiary, Yukos-Moskva, based in Moscow

Investigators said they had confiscated documents from the company's offices unless had made no arrests. The company