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A Moscow judge declared the Yukos oil company bankrupt on Tuesday, paving the way for the liquidation of what was once Russia s biggest oil producer.Arbitration Court Judge Pavel Markov s decision drops the curtain on a three-year drama that has seen Yukos billionaire founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky jailed in a Siberian pen stanley cup al colony and the company s biggest production unit sold at a discounted price to the state.The fraud investigation against Khodorkovsky and the tax probe into Yukos that began in 2003 were cast by the Kremlin as a crusade against a rotten corporate empire. But the case was perceived by others as punishment for Khodorkovsky s perceived political ambitions and a drive by the state to regain mastery of the strategically important oil sector.The widely expected ruling upholds a vote one week ago by Yukos creditors, who dismissed the assurances of the company stanley termoska s lawyers that it could continue as a viable entity and pay down its remaining debts.The creditors are dominated by the Federal Tax Service and the state-controlled oil group OAO Rosneft stanley cup , which already owns the battered company s biggest production unit, Yuganskneftegaz. The production unit was sold in December 2004 in a disputed auction against Yukos multibillion-dollar back tax bills. Rosneft became the nation s No. 3 oil producer overnight after its purchase of Yuganskneftegaz and is being primed as the nation s champion oil company, capable of competing with the likes of Exxon Mobil Corp. and Sa