Khodorkovsky"s Case

Processes are not alone, but two. In the first process, the Meshchansky court of Moscow sentenced Khodorkovsky to the eight years of the prison regime, of which more than five he has already served. By law, it could be released conditionally. But he was not released - painfully hurt, did not want to study in the colony in the seam. On the contrary, they opened the second process with new accusations ... the charge nominated in the second process where scale. YUKOS has grown, absorbing a number of oil producing companies. The position of the prosecutor"s office: this was done by deceptions, forms and frauds "in the composition of the criminal group" (Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and Unnamed others) YUKOS acted as a vertically integrated company, oil on the way from mining to the final buyer in the country and especially abroad passed through a chain of specialized firms. The position of the prosecutor"s office: it was theft - the head office stole all the oil from his subsidiaries, which they mined from 1998 to 2003 - in the amount of $ 45 billion