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Khodorkovsky Faces 15 More Years.
(From The Moscow Times)
The Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General's Office on Tuesday confirmed that it had brought new charges against former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky that could add 15 years to his prison sentence.
Lawyers for Khodorkovsky, who is serving an eight-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion, insisted that prosecutors were essentially rephrasing charges of multibillion-dollar embezzlement and money laundering brought against their client in February 2007.
The Investigative Committee said in a statement that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev stood accused of embezzling nearly 350 million tons of oil, and of laundering 487 billion rubles ($20.7 billion) and $4.7 billion.
"They've rewritten the old complaint," Khodorkovsky's lawyer Yury Shmidt said by telephone. "Bringing the [February 2007 case] to trial is something that has not yet been decided, because they have not gotten direct instructions from the Kremlin.
"Now there's a new political configuration, so they've decided to drag it on even further," Shmidt said.
Dmitry Medvedev has made reforming the country's corrupt and inefficient legal system a cornerstone of his young presidency. The legal onslaught against Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev has been widely criticized as politically motivated.
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