RUSSIA: RUSSIAN PROSECUTION LAWYERS DEMAND PRISON SENTENCE FOR FORMER YUKOS CHIEF MIKHAIL KHORDORKOVSKY ON EVASION AND FRAUD CHARGES

Record ID: 649240

  • Title: RUSSIA: RUSSIAN PROSECUTION LAWYERS DEMAND PRISON SENTENCE FOR FORMER YUKOS CHIEF MIKHAIL KHORDORKOVSKY ON EVASION AND FRAUD CHARGES
  • Date: 29th March 2005
  • Summary: (EU)MOSCOW, RUSSIA (MARCH 29, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR COURT HOUSE BUILDING 0.07 2. CLOSE UP COURT SIGN ON BUILDING 0.12 3. SLV FORMER YUKOS CEO MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY (LEFT OF SCREEN) AND MAIN YUKOS SHAREHOLDER PLATON LEBEDEV BEHIND BARS INSIDE COURT 0.17 4. CLOSE UP OF KHODORKOVSKY 0.21 5. CLOSE OF PHOTOGRAPHER IN COURT 0.25 6. CLOSE UP AND PAN UP OF KHODORKOVSKY SMILING 0.28 7. SLV KHODORKOVSKY AND LEBEDEV BEHIND BARS 0.33 8. SLV EXTERIOR COURT HOUSE BUILDING/ FLAGS 0.38 9. WIDE OF TRAFFIC ON STREET OUTSIDE COURT HOUSE 0.40 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th April 2005 13:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA4PUY0I0UF61QDYNTYE5V6TBCJ
  • Story Text: Russian prosecutors demand 10 years jail term for
    former YUKOS chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky.



    Russian prosecutors on Tuesday (March 29) asked a
    Moscow court to sentence YUKOS YUKO.RTS> oil magnate
    Mikhail Khodorkovsky to 10 years in jail for tax evasion
    and fraud.

    The trial has been accompanied by the fall of YUKOS,
    the company Khodorkovsky founded and which is now close to
    collapse, broken by a $27.5 billion back-tax claim and
    stripped of its biggest oil-producing unit.

    Both Khodorkovsky and his co-accused, YUKOS minority
    shareholder Platon Lebedev, have rejected the charges,
    which stem from the 1994 privatisation of a fertiliser
    firm, Apatit.
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