A Moscow court ordered Mikhail Khodorkovsky transferred from a Siberian prison to a detention facility in the Russian capital amid a new investigation into theft and money laundering charges against the former oil tycoon, The Associated Press news agency reported on Tuesday quoting Khodorkovsky’s lawyer.
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March 21, 2007
Moscow has continuously denied four Israeli nationals convicted in Russia permission to serve their prison terms at home, unless Israel extradites Jewish Russian-born entrepreneur Leonid Nevzlin, once the second-in-command of Yukos and business partner of the jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, leading Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth wrote Tuesday in a report headlined “Putin’s Israeli Hostagesâ€.
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December 5, 2006
Poisoned former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died in a London hospital last week, had visited Israel lately to hand over a dossier investigating Russian energy giant Yukos case, The Times reported on Monday quoting a former Yukos owner.
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November 27, 2006
Russia’s highest court on Monday rejected a legal challenge by jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky against official regulations that forbid prisoners to share food with each other, The Associated Press reported Monday.
The Supreme Court rejected Khodorkovsky’s appeal of the nationwide regulation and ruled that it will remain in place, court spokesman Pavel Odintsov said. Khodorkovsky launched the challenge after prison authorities put him in an isolation cell for 10 days in June after finding food that belonged to another prisoner in his bag. In the appeal, cited on his supporters’ Web site, Khodorkovsky said the ban on sharing food violates Russian and international law.
Khodorkovsky, who was convicted in May 2005 of fraud and tax evasion in a trial Kremlin critics claimed was rigged, is serving an eight-year sentence in a Siberian prison 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) east of Moscow, near the Chinese border. In August, he lost an appeal to serve his sentence in the Moscow area, where he is registered and resided before his October 2003 arrest.
Supporters see the imprisonment of Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, and the dismantling of his oil empire as a Kremlin-driven campaign to eliminate a political rival and boost state control of the strategic energy sector.
In April, Khodorkovsky spent several weeks in an isolation cell after he was slashed in the face by a fellow inmate while sleeping. The tycoon has been placed in solitary confinement for infractions of prison rules three times.
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October 31, 2006
