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Wednesday March 30, 10:43
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YUKOS Khodorkovsky may be jailed for a decade
(by Dr.Goldfinger)
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As many as 10 years in jail may be the sentence for the ex-chief of the Russian oil company YUKOS, Russian officials say.
Russia’s prosecutors are seeking the highest possible punishment for YUKOS founders Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev that means the once richest people in Russia may be sentenced t as many as 10 years for tax evasion and accounting fluff in the company.
Dmitry Shokhin, Russia’s chief prosecutor, said the sentence would be just as Khodorkovsky and Lebedev committed illegal acts. "The guilt of the defendants is fully proven," he added.
The sentence request was expected by the Khodorkovsky defense team, said Genrikh Padva, Khodorkovsky’s lead defense attorney.
YUKOS lost its major oil-pumping unit Yuganskneftegaz about six months ago to the Russian oil company Rosneft. Yuganskneftegaz will sue its former parent company with the demand for YUKOS to pay for oil supplied from July to December, for which, as Yuganskneftegaz claims, Yukos never paid. The suit was filed about two weeks ago. The case is expected to be heard in the court on April 25.
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