Khodorkovsky gets six year additional jail term
Imprisoned oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced Thursday to an additional six years in jail by a Moscow court, in his second fraud trial which has been condemned by the West.
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Russia's former wealthiest man is now scheduled for release in 2017, though his lawyers have already announced that they intend to appeal.
Along with former business partner Platon Lebedev, Khordovsky was found guilty on charges of money laundering and embezzlement from his own oil firm, Yukos.
He is charged with embezzling 218 million tonnes of oil from the Yukos oil giant between 1998 and 2003 and laundering 487 billion rubles (12 billion euro) and 5.6 billion euro received from the oil.
The United States and other European countries have called the judgment selective justice.
The Kremlin has responded saying the outside world should mind its own business.
Khodorkovsky and Lebedev were first arrested in 2003 and sentenced in 2005 for fraud and tax evasion.
Today's court decision in Moscow sentenced Khodorkovsky to 14 years in prison. It will run concurrently with the eight-year term he received in 2005.
Supporters of the two defendants have been holding rallies outside the courthouse against prime minister Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.
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