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Khodorkovsky to be transfered to Moscow · 2007-03-21 13:35
Moscow court ordered Mikhail Khodorkovsky transferred from a Siberian prison to a detention facility in Moscow amid a new investigation into theft and money laundering charges against the former oil tycoon, Mosnews said.
Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003 in a tax probe that eventually put oil company Yukos into state hands.
He was convicted of fraud and tax evasion and has been serving an eight-year sentence in the Siberian city of Chita, about 3,000 miles east of Moscow.
Prosecutors filed new charges last month, accusing Khodorkovsky of stealing property worth nearly $34.3 billion from Yukos subsidiaries.
Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev will be moved to Moscow during the investigation.
Khodorkovsky’s lawyer Mr Shmidt said: "This will make working on the case much easier for us. Chita is not Moscow, media coverage is better here, public opinion is stronger."
Khodorkovsky has denied the new charges against him as "shameful farce."
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