Oil Tycoon Gets His First Day in Court
After more than seven months behind bars, Russia’s richest man appeared in a Moscow court for the first substantive hearing in a tax evasion and fraud case widely seen as a Kremlin-orchestrated campaign to punish him.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former chief executive of Yukos Oil, was led into court under tight security. Judge Irina Kolesnikova postponed the hearing until June 8 to give tax inspectors more time to study the case.
The investigation against Yukos and its shareholders is seen by many as retaliation for Khodorkovsky’s political aspirations and his funding of opposition parties.
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