The defense of Mikhail Khodorkovsky filed Friday, 31 December a preliminary appeal of his sentence to six additional years in prison. "The complaint is preliminary because we do not currently complete text of the decision," said the lawyer Karinna Moskalenko.
The defense of Khodorkovsky and his former business partner, Platon Lebedev, was also sentenced to the same penalty, filed this appeal on Friday: the next ten days are public holidays in Russia and is the legal deadline for challenging a decision . The lawyer said an appeal would be full and final tabled at the end of the holidays early this year in Russia or after January 10, when the copy of his trial has been transmitted.
Lebedev and Khodorkovsky, imprisoned since 2003, have seen, after a second trial, imprisonment extended until 2017, when the sentence which had been imposed in 2005 called for their release before 2012, the year of presidential Russia. Mikhail Khodorkovsky had taken control in the 1990s the oil company Yukos in unclear circumstances, becoming the richest man in Russia.
But in the early 2000s, he was an advocate of transparency in Russian business, notoriously corrupt, and had undertaken to finance the opposition and civil society programs, putting himself back in the chair then and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. NGOs and observers believe that the strong man of Russia initiated proceedings against the businessman in order to silence a critic cumbersome.
Mr. Putin has not hesitated to compare the past to Mr. Khodorkovsky gangster Al Capone or the American crook Madoff and accuse him of having blood on their hands.
The defense of Khodorkovsky and his former business partner, Platon Lebedev, was also sentenced to the same penalty, filed this appeal on Friday: the next ten days are public holidays in Russia and is the legal deadline for challenging a decision . The lawyer said an appeal would be full and final tabled at the end of the holidays early this year in Russia or after January 10, when the copy of his trial has been transmitted.
Lebedev and Khodorkovsky, imprisoned since 2003, have seen, after a second trial, imprisonment extended until 2017, when the sentence which had been imposed in 2005 called for their release before 2012, the year of presidential Russia. Mikhail Khodorkovsky had taken control in the 1990s the oil company Yukos in unclear circumstances, becoming the richest man in Russia.
But in the early 2000s, he was an advocate of transparency in Russian business, notoriously corrupt, and had undertaken to finance the opposition and civil society programs, putting himself back in the chair then and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. NGOs and observers believe that the strong man of Russia initiated proceedings against the businessman in order to silence a critic cumbersome.
Mr. Putin has not hesitated to compare the past to Mr. Khodorkovsky gangster Al Capone or the American crook Madoff and accuse him of having blood on their hands.
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