MOSCOW, August 10 - RAPSI. The Investigative Committee has once again placed former YUKOS Chief Accountant Irina Golub on the wanted list, the Kommersant daily reports. She has been charged in absentia.

The Prosecutor General's Office initiated a case against Golub, who is hiding in the UK, and a group of unidentified individuals, in 2008. She was suspected of organizing 48 million rubles in tax evasion ($1.5 million) in 2000 and 28.9 million rubles in evasion ($906,560) in 2001.

Similar charges were also brought against her for the 2002 and 2003 years. Last December, investigators closed the case. However, they initiated a new case against her on the misappropriation of 350 million tons of oil and the laundering of the proceeds in May 2012.

Former YUKOS head Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev were sentenced to 13 years in prison under the same charges. Their attorneys do not exclude that the developments may be related to the authorities' attempt to eliminate contradictions in the YUKOS case.