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January 27th, 2016 
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nsnbc : The pre-tiral investigation into the alleged involvement of former Russian YUKOS Chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky in murders and attempted homicides has been extended to July 30.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of the Russian oligarchs who amassed their wealth in the chaotic period after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is being accused of organizing a number of murders and attempted homicides. The Russian State news agency Tass quotes “a source close to the investigation” as saying that the pre-trial investigation has been extended to July 30.
In 1998 Russian authorities launched criminal proceedings against separate YUKOS senior officials who were accused of standing behind particularly grave crimes such as the murder of Nefteyugansk Mayor Vladimir Petukhov and attempted homicide of Yevgeny Rybin, the East Petroleum Handelsges manager.
On June 30 last year, the Russian Investigation Committee announced that it was resuming the investigation into Petukhov’s murder in connection with newly appeared information that Khodorkovsky could have contracted Petukhov’s murder and ordered a number of other grave crimes. On December 11, 2015, Khodorkovsky, who had not turned up for questioning, was charged with the organization of two murders. On December 23, Moscow’s Basmannyi Court arrested the ex-YUKOS chief also in absentia at the investigator’s request.
The Tass news agency quotes Russian Investigation Committee Spokesperson Vladimir Markin as saying that Khodorkovsky had been put on the international wanted list and that the investigators would do everything to bring him to justice. It is a third case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in which he appears as a defendant.
In May 2005, Moscow’s Meshchansky Court sentenced him and MENATEP Bank ex-chief Platon Lebedev to 9 years in prison for fraud and tax evasion. Later, the Moscow City Court reduced their prison terms to 8 years. In a second case, Moscow’s Khamovnichesky Court found Khodorkovsky and Platonov guilty of charges of embezzlement and money laundering and sentenced them to 14 years in prison.
The Moscow City Court presidium later softened the sentence to 11 years. Russian President Vladimir Putin pardoned Khodorkovsky in December 2013. Khodorkovsky was released from prison on December 20, 2013. In January 2014, the Russian Supreme Court reduced Platon Lebedev’s sentence to ten and a half years, before he had served his time. He was also released. Shortly after his release Khodorkovsky boarded a plane to the German capital Berlin where he received a war welcome by former German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher.
CH/L – nsnbc 27.01.2016
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2016/01/27/khodorkovsky-pre-trial-investigation-extended-to-july-30/
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