The Khodorkovsky Case

Process not one but two. In the first process petty-bourgeois court of Moscow sentenced Khodorkovsky to eight years in prison, of which more than five he had already served. By law it could release on parole. But it would not let the hurts of the shrew, not wanted in the colony to learn at home. On the contrary, opened a second process with new charges.......The charges in the second process, much bigger. YUKOS has grown, engulfing a number of oil companies. The position of the prosecution: it was done by deception, forgery and fraud "as part of a criminal group" (Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and other nameless). YUKOS acted as a vertically integrated company, oil production from extraction to the end-buyer in the country and especially abroad passed through a chain of specialized firms. The position of the prosecution: it was stealing - head office robbed of its subsidiaries all the oil that they produced since 1998 till 2003 in the amount of $ 45 billion...