London court rules in favour of U.S. banker in Yukos case

LONDON (Reuters) - A London judge has cleared a vice-chairman at UBS investment bank of claims he knowingly took part in a rigged auction in 2007 during the Russian state's breakup of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Yukos oil major.Bob Foresman faced a civil fraud lawsuit filed by Yukos' former managers that alleged the American banker, then vice president of Moscow investment bank Renaissance Capital, conspired with Russian state officials to pre-agree the sale of Yukos Finance BV to a consortium of..